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Neanderthal:

When Humans met Neandertals

Category: Neanderthal

An excellent video about the science of human evolution produced by a very science oriented artist, Lynn Fellman.

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Mail Order Brides and Hypergyny

Category: Anthropology

I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...

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Neanderthal Genome Will Be Released

Category: Evolution

The complete genome of a Neanderthal dating to about 38,000 years ago has been sequenced by the team lead by Svante Paabo. The genome will be announced on Darwin's Birthay, Feb 12. "We are working like crazy at the moment," says Pääbo, adding that his...

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Neanderthals at the end of their days

What was Neanderthal-Modern Human interaction really like? Fifty four teeth (some of which are fragments) and nine other bones dating to about 40-43,000 years ago represent the "most recent, and largest, sample of southern Iberian late Neanderthals currently known." These and some closely related...

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Allen's Rule, Phenotypic Plasticity, and The Nature of Evolution

Allen's Rule. One of those things you learn in graduate school along with Bergmann's Rule and Cope's Rule. It is all about body size. Cope's Rule ... which is a rule of thumb and not an absolute ... says that over time the species in...

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Life history trade-offs and human pygmies

Every few years a paper comes out "explaining" short stature in one or more Pygmy groups. Most of the time the new work ads new information and new ideas but fails to be convincing. This is the case with the recent PNAS paper by Migliano...

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Evidence for an ancient lineage of modern humans

It almost seems like there are two separate research project under way regarding the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens. One focuses on recent humans, tends to use DNA as a major source of information, and from this base projects back into the past. This approach...

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Evolution: The Mind's Big Bang

Evolution: The Mind's Big Bang I've known Shea for years ... since before grad school. Going out drinking with this guy was a little dangerous. Almost as dangerous as going out drinking with me....

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Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival 33

Welcome to the Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival #33, 'specializing' in the four fields of anthropology. The previous edition of 4SH can be found at Testimony of the Spade, and the next edition will be hosted by Our Cultural World. The main page for...

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Did Humans or Climate Change Cause the Extinctions of Pleistocene Eurasian Megafauna?

 Did humans wipe out the Pleistocene megafauna? This is a question that can be asked separately for each area of the world colonized by Homo sapiens. It is also a question that engenders sometimes heated debate. A new paper coming out in the Journal...

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