Anatomy:
This finger needs a ring! (soure) ... then it's OK if the 'woman' is a guy in drag, right? The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife. It...
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Posted on June 23, 2008 8:37 PM • 12 Comments •
And don't forget: Blood is NEVER blue!...
Posted on May 10, 2008 11:01 PM • 1 Comments •
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Welcome to the Lucky 13th Edition of The Boneyard ... the Web Carnival about Bones and Stuff. "The Boneyard is a blog carnival covering all things paleo, from dinosaurs to pollen to hominids and everywhere in between. It's held every two weeks (the...
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Posted on April 6, 2008 10:23 PM • 1 Comments •
According to one of the leading experts on the human circulatory system, blood flowing through veins is blue....
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Posted on April 5, 2008 5:00 PM • 18 Comments •
The question is basic: Is evolutionary change largely random or is it more often shaped by selective forces? The former is linked to what is called Neutral Theory, and it has a lot of support, to the extent that it most likely true. The latter...
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Posted on March 29, 2008 5:00 PM • 2 Comments •
The ape human split is a bit of a moving target. In the 1970s and early 1980s, there were geneticists who placed it at very recent (close to 4 million years ago) and palaeoanthropologists, using fossils, who placed it at much earlier. During the 1980s,...
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Posted on March 27, 2008 8:29 PM • 12 Comments •
There is a new paper out suggesting that the Flores hominids, known as Hobbits, were "human endemic cretins." From the abstract of this paper: ... We hypothesize that these individuals are myxoedematous endemic (ME) cretins, part of an inland population of (mostly unaffected) Homo sapiens....
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Posted on March 6, 2008 8:46 AM • 8 Comments •
A colleague and grad student of mine, Rob, just sent me the following question, slightly edited here: A student in my intro class asked me a good question the other day to which I had no answer. When did smiling cease to be a threat...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 6:41 PM • 2 Comments •
Fallback foods are the foods that an organism eats when it can't find the good stuff. It has been suggested that adaptive changes in fallback food strategies can leave a more distinct mark on the morphology of an organism, including in the fossil record,...
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Posted on February 19, 2008 8:14 AM • 7 Comments •
Comparing living chimpanzees to living humans, in reference to the species that gave rise to these two closely related species, is one way to frame questions about the evolution of each species....
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Posted on February 19, 2008 8:00 AM • 7 Comments •
