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Category: Biology
There are a number of interesting pieces of evolutionary research in the news. Some are a little on the old side......
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 12:01 AM • •
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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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Category: Biology
There are a number of interesting pieces of evolutionary research in the news. Some are a little on the old side......
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 12:01 AM • •
Category: Evolution
There are are couple of interesting pieces of research in the news. The first concerns tail shedding in island lizards. PhysOrg has the story:...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:45 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Sharks
But, it doesn't link Great Whites and Megalodon. Longtime readers may remember this three part series on the subject. An interesting new fossil has been discovered that sheds some more light on the subject....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:36 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Cultural Resource Management
Some interesting news from around the internet. Jenifer Neils reviews a couple of books on looting - including one I reviewed - and provides an interesting take on both....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 6:45 PM • •
Category: Evolution
Back on the 17th I wrote about a study that was supposed to appear in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The study concerned the evolution of the MSX1 gene and its role in causing cleft lip and some skin derivative disorders....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 3:30 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Earlier today I published an interesting picture. Here it is again for reference:...
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Category: Evolution
There are some interesting pieces of research out there this week....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 11:59 AM • •
Category: Blogs of Note
Aydin Orstan is one of the more interesting bloggers (something you don't ordinarily expect from a malacologist) in the blogosphere, even if I don't mention him as often as I should. One of his readers asked him about the impact...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:20 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I'm currently working on a long winded post about the new Homo erectus pelvis - which I hope to have up tomorrow - in the meantime it occurred to me that I had been meaning to mention a new paper...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 11:52 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Invertebrates
According to this BBC News article it has....
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