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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Origin of Modern Humans:
How are art and human evolution related?
Category: Archaeology
My interest is in developing a plausible evidence-based story of how modern humans emerged from ancestral species. This means guessing at what features of humans make us "human" and attempting to see the emergence of each of these features in the fossilized record of our...
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Falsehood: "If this was the Stone Age, I'd be dead by now"
Category: Falsehoods II
It is generally thought that life expectancy in the past was less that it is today for our species as a whole and in the case of industrialized countries in particular. However, this belief counts as a falsehood not because it is untrue (it is,...
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Sex at Dawn
Category: Anthropology
From Skeptically Speaking: We talk to author Christopher Ryan about his new book Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. We'll discuss the most recent science and theories, and how social norms compare to our biological impulses. This Friday. Details here. I may...
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Nova: Becoming Human Hour Three: I'm speechless.
Category: Human Evolution
It is one thing to get a thing wrong now and then. It is not terrible to occasionally use language that might be improved. But it is unacceptable to produce a documentary where the first ten or more minutes will require hours to undo in the classroom if a potential future student actually watches this third installment of the three hour tour through human evolution. Three hour tour.
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Human Brain Size: Does it matter? And has it decreased?
Category: Neurobiology
Sometimes people walk around with only half a brain, or a large portion of their brain disconnected, or simply having never developed, or an extra large brain, and we usually take little notice. But when there is a five or ten or twenty percent difference...
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Musings on the Aquatic Ape Theory
Category: Anthropology
A theory like this can evolve into a zombie that will eat the brains of science geeks, graduate students, and others, for decades
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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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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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