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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Human Evolution:
Seed has been running an interview with the British author Will Self whom I first encountered by reading his wonderful Great Apes, the cover of which - a mash-up of a human and ape - is above. Every time...
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Posted on March 29, 2008 5:44 PM • 6 Comments
According to this paper, a hidden Markov model of the divergence between humans and chimps finds "a very recent speciation time of human-chimp (4.1 ± 0.4 million years)". This would put the last common ancestor with Pan after a...
Posted on February 24, 2007 5:06 PM • 3 Comments
This is Turkana boy (Homo ergaster), soon to go on display in Kenya's national museum. Bishop Boniface Adoyo, of Nairobi Pentecostal Church (NPC) and Christ is the Answer Ministries, claims: "I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything...
Posted on February 6, 2007 8:40 PM • 5 Comments
A day or so back, I posted on an AP article which declared that "skull found in a cave in Romania includes features of both modern humans and Neanderthals, possibly suggesting that the two may have interbred thousands of years...
Posted on January 17, 2007 10:04 PM • 2 Comments
AP is reporting that a "skull found in a cave in Romania includes features of both modern humans and Neanderthals, possibly suggesting that the two may have interbred thousands of years ago." A paper to appear in Tuesday's PNAS...
Posted on January 15, 2007 6:17 PM • 3 Comments
A fossil skull discovered in 1952 offers support for the hypothesis that Upper Paleolithic Eurasians descended from a population that emigrated from sub-Saharan Africa in the Late Pleistocene. In tomorrow's Science, Fred Grine and co-workers describe a South African...
Posted on January 11, 2007 9:17 PM • 2 Comments
A number of my SciBlings has already covered the discover of the three-year old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton that has been dubbed "Little Lucy" (see, for example, PZ's post). I'm just going to point out the the specimen was discovered...
Posted on September 21, 2006 2:11 PM • 0 Comments
From UC Berkeley: New fossils discovered in the Afar desert of eastern Ethiopia are a missing link between our ape-man ancestors some 3.5 million years ago and more primitive hominids a million years older, according to an international team led...
Posted on April 12, 2006 2:52 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
With all the posting about the Dover decision, it is always good to remember that scientific problems are solved by scientists and aired in scientific journals, not in the legal arena. Investigators at Arizona State and Penn State Universities have...
Posted on December 20, 2005 6:43 PM • 0 Comments
