First Australians Arrived 65,000 years ago at Madjedbebe
We have covered the ongoing discussion of the peopling of Australia, or Sahul rather, since 2008, based upon both archaeological and …
Category Archives: Physical Anthropology
The First Ancient DNA Studies of African Humans
If you have noticed there is a paucity of ancient DNA studies from Africa. I’m not entirly sure why. Part …
A Lost Baby Molar Is Currently Our Fourth and Oldest Known Denisovan Individual
A paper published this past Friday in the journal Science Advances, shared the reports from a team of paleoanthropologists who …
A Deeper Introgression Of Ancient Humans and Neanderthals
New ancient DNA discoveries from an ancient 124,000-year-old Neanderthal femur suggests modern human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals between 470,000 and …
The Krapina Neanderthals Used Toothpicks
Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology recently published discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on 130,000 year old Krapina Neanderthal teeth. …
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 …
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 …
