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. …
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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 …
Denisovans & Modern Humans Introgressed At Least Twice
Sharon Browning and colleagues published a paper in Cell last week that shows there are uniquely different Denisovan genomes in …
The Role of Climate Change on Early Human Society & Creativity in Kenya’s Olorgesailie Basin
Based on the following three recently published Science studies, in order to survive the climate chances 320,000 ago, early …
Is Mrs Ples A Male Or Female Australopithecus africanus?
New research published in South African Journal of Science offers a continuation of the debate that ‘Mrs Ples,’ the 2.5 …
The Modern Human Cerebellum & Parietal Lobe Evolved Recently
As mentioned yesterday, Jebel Irhoud documents an early African Homo sapiens. The specimen represents mixture of archaic and modern features, …
The Misliya Specimen Pushes Homo sapiens Out of Africa by more than 50,000 Years
A paper published Science reports an interesting date of a human fossil from the Misliya Cave, a cave tucked in …
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 …
Homo naledi Could Be Much Younger Than Previous Thought
Homo naledi, the mosaic of archaic and modern human, whose discovery two years ago was published in the journal Elife was touted to …
