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posts tagged with "biogeography"
Looking at Luzon hominins, from the perspective of 1985
An article on biogeography considers what Homo erectus in the Philippines would mean.
03 May 2018
Chimpanzees don't necessarily live where biologists thought they did
Researchers use camera traps and field surveys to show one big area of supposed chimpanzee habitat is empty, another populated sustainably.
20 Apr 2018
A look at the glacial lakes of Siberia
Freshwater lakes blocked by ice sheets once extended across large areas of northern Eurasia.
11 Jan 2018
Should we be surprised that Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans didn't form stable hybrid zones?
A commentary by Ajit Varki suggests that modern human origins may have been unique in biogeography, and I point to other similar examples of what is probably a regular phenomenon.
02 Aug 2016
No Australopithecus boisei from the Afar
An interesting limit to the evidence of later robust australopiths.
08 May 2015
Notable: Baboon migration to Arabia
Baboons may have dispersed from Africa around the same time as humans, by a southern route
29 Oct 2014
Across the waters
14 Mar 2013
Quote: Osborn on biogeography
06 Aug 2009
Bigfoot biogeography
03 Jul 2009
Overstating the obvious
24 Mar 2009
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