Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside Humans
A couple weeks ago, I introduced that H. naledi may be much younger than we thought it was. Razib’s recent post points out three new …
Category Archives: Physical Anthropology
Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Ice Age Caves Without Human Remains
Ancient DNA has come a long way, baby. We now don’t even need the bones any more to pick up …
The Hobbit: A Homo habilis Lineage?
When the 3 and 1/2 foot Homo floresiensis was discovered and the age of the new species correlated with the …
The Effect of Diet Changes and The Selection of European Fatty Acid Desaturases
UC Berkeley Integrative Biologist, Rasmus Nielsen and his colleagues, published a fascinating study in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution looking at …
A Nose In The Air: The Influence of Climate & Nose Morphology
British anthropologist Arthur Thomson, in the late 1800’s published his observations on nose size and shape. He noted that humans from …
A New 400,000 Year Old Portuguese Skull May Be An Early Neanderthal Relative
A 400,000 (390-436 ka) year old Portuguese partial skull was discovered in ’14 from Gruta da Aroeira cave. The paper …
Just What Hominid Species Are the Two 100,000 year-old Lingjing Crania?
Writing in the journal Science, Trinkhaus and crew describe two Late Pleistocene-era 105,000 to 125,000 year-old calvaria from Lingjing, Xuchang, …
The Genetics of Inuit Cold Weather Adaptation
A new study in the journal Molecular Biology & Evolution analyzed the genomes of nearly 200 Inuits, looking particularly at …
The Oldest Humans, Aboriginal Australians
A genetic and cultural analysis, published in Nature, of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans from New Guinea suggests there was …
What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
