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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.
Category: Human Evolution
My colleague and friend Kaye Reed has a nice remembrance of Charlie Lockwood in the current issue of Evolutionary Anthropology. I had reason to mention Charlie during my "Last Lecture" and will admit to getting a little choked-up. The...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:37 PM • •
Category: Evolution
(This review appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 2005) As human beings, we like to tell stories--we are story-telling apes. As scientists, however, we tend not to see ourselves as telling stories for, we are led to...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
Very sad news for those of us who do physical anthropology. Charles ("Charlie") Lockwood (University College London) was killed today in a motorcycle accident in London. He is survived by his parents and sisters. Charlie was a talented morphologist...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:04 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:44 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
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 by John Lynch at 5:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-evolution
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 by John Lynch at 8:40 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
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 by John Lynch at 10:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
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 by John Lynch at 6:17 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
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 by John Lynch at 9:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
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 by John Lynch at 2:11 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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