Check Out Fossilized.org
A colleague of mine has developed a new online human fossil record, in the likes of my own database of …
Tag Archives: phylogenetics
Episode 1: A ScreenCast Tutorial On How-To Do A Multiple Sequence Alignment & Draw A Phylogenetic Tree Using Swami
The last time I did a little tutorial on how to use bioinformatic tools in anthropological research was last October. …
A cladistic analysis of 17 hominid skulls
So, I got my hands on that mouth watering Nature paper I mentioned a couple days ago. It is titled, …
An upcoming Nature paper provides ‘a new, simplified family tree of humanity.’
The press is running some mouth watering news on an upcoming Nature paper that provides ‘a new, simplified family tree …
1,000 year old Lice on Peruvian Mummies tell us of early human migrations
John Hawks shared an interesting news bit the other day. The study basically sampled head lice off of 1,000 year …
General questions on assessing language evolution
I’ve read the short article on punctuated equilibrium in language evolution and have discussed it with some colleagues of mine. …
Punctuated Equilibrium drives Language Evolution
Fellow blogger, Simon Greenhill of HENRY, and co-authors published a cool paper evaluating language evolution that just came out in …
