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 …
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News on South Africa’s Hominins: Berger’s Rising Star Expedition
This November, a team funded by National Geographic and led by Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg …
HSV-1 Phylogenetics As A Model for Human Migrations
This has been done before using H. pylori as a model, but it is remarkable nonetheless to see how innovative …
D4500 & D2600, A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia
A complete 1.8 million year old skull found from Dmanisi, Georgia could be evidence that early hominids are actually all …
The Role Of Climate On African Stone Age Technology
Nature Communications published an article in May, 2013 that just now caught my eye. The paper’s title, “Development of Middle …
The Diversity of the African Genome & Traces of an Unknown Hominin
The most comprehensive look at the genome of Africans is published in the journal Cell today. The paper titled, “Evolutionary History and …
Microwear Analysis at Dmanisi
This month in the Journal of Human Evolution, a new study on the teeth of the Dmanisi Homo erectus has …
125,000 Year Old Hand Axes From Jebel Faya, UAE
Hans-Peter Uerpmann of the University of Tubingen has lead a team excavating the Jebel Faya site in the United Arab …
Genetics of Ethiopians
Razib has done rounded up a nice review of Dienekes‘ Dodecad data to answer some prelim questions on the genetic …
Prehistoric Population Sizes & Migrations Within Africa Inferred From Coalescent Theory
The other day Dienekes pointed out a paper on ancestral human population dynamics within Africa before the out of Africa …
