Fossil hominids (and their kin)
This section of the site gives details about fossil hominids and other primates.
The entire fossil section grows by cannibalizing other parts of the site. As new material grows to a sufficient level, I consolidate it into concise reviews of fossil hominids. That means that things are always changing here. A lot of this change is invisible; I usually date entries so that they don't appear on the front page. Many of the current entries are paper reviews about fossil hominids.
And then, there are the Flores files.
The section is divided into categories according to species, time, or geographic area.
Here are the categories:
And following are short excerpts of the posts in each category:
/fossils/primate/new_world
Frogs rafted, too
One of the strange things about primate evolution is the arrival of anthropoid monkeys in South America sometime during the Oligocene...
John Hawks Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin—Madison
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