Beyond bones & stones
If you look at the time stamp of both Bora's and Greg Laden's posts, you'd notice that they just broke the embargo on a new study of a prehistoric case of tuberculosis that was supposed to go live at 5pm PST, 8pm EST. Now that the news is out, albeit slightly earlier than expected, I... Continue Reading →
In brief, Science has published three news pieces that you maybe interested. They are all reports of what was presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting a couple weeks ago. The first, "Snapshots From the Meeting," is a summary of the conference, where Ann Gibbons and Elizabeth Colutta discuss, 'the evolution of gliding,... Continue Reading →
EurekAlert is running a very interesting press release on the discovery of a 500,000 year old Homo erectus fossil recovered from Turkey. Apparently the fossil, a fragment of skull bone, shows lesions that the individual had tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease caused by multiple strains of mycobacteria. Because the mycobacteria have lost numerous... Continue Reading →
