posts tagged with "biogeography"

• Hunting the ghost dogs with camera traps
  A New York Times report on the short-eared dog of the Amazon.
  09 May 2020
• 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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