The Last Homo erectus
Last week, in Nature, University of Iowa anthropologist Russell Ciochon and colleagues published new dates on fossils and sediment layers …
Category Archives: Physical Anthropology
Apidima 1 – A New Look At Old Skull
In the 1970’s, the Apidima Cave site in Greece was excavated by archaeologists. Lodged within a chunk of rock was …
Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
This fascinating visual presentation from the American Museum of Natural History outlines what we know about human evolution by combining …
The Presence of the Frontal Opercula in Homo naledi
When it comes to the evolution of the human brain, size isn’t everything. In fact, shape is a huge determinant. …
First Native American Population Was Just Around 250 People
No one knows exactly the population of Native Americans when contact with Europeans occured. There are some estimates claiming there …
Horse-riding Huns & Mongols Spread Hepatitis B, Plague into the Western Eurasia and Replaced Scythians
A very cool series of three studies were published several days ago in Science and Nature that I just have …
Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA
Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …
A Modern Human Genetic Adaptation for Diving
The Bajau people of Indonesia are known as “Sea Nomads,” because we’ve known that for thousands of years they live …
Al Wusta Phalanxes Document Humans Travel East of Africa Earlier
Earlier this year we learned about the Misliya maxilla which pushed our understanding of out of Africa by 50,000 years. …
Oldest Human DNA from Africa Clues Us On Ancient Moroccan Heritage
In 2015 the first African ancient genome of 4,500-year-old human remains found in Ethiopia were published. Now more ancient Africa DNA has been …
