Notable: The enamel-dentine junction of surviving Zhoukoudian teeth
Notable paper: Zanolli, C., Pan, L., Dumoncel, J., Kullmer, O., Kundrat, M., Liu, W., … & Tuniz, C. (2018). Inner tooth morphology of Homo erectus from ...
Notable paper: Zanolli, C., Pan, L., Dumoncel, J., Kullmer, O., Kundrat, M., Liu, W., … & Tuniz, C. (2018). Inner tooth morphology of Homo erectus from ...
In Nature yesterday, Zhaoyu Zhu and collaborators published a paper describing the paleomag chronology of Shangchen, a site in Lantian county, China. The old...
Today’s reminder that stone tools are not all that matter in human behavior: “Discovery of circa 115,000-year-old bone retouchers at Lingjing, Henan, China”.
Annalee Newitz describes a study in Science that examines a semi-legendary flood at the dawn of Chinese civilization, which turns out to have been a real eve...
From the bottom of the sea this week comes another new fossil hominin. The specimen is a partial mandible, described in Nature Communications, by Chun-Hsiang...
Earlier this month, Scientific Reports included an article by Hong Ao and colleagues reporting a date for the Shangshazui archaeological locality in the Nihe...
I read with interest your post on: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/pigmentation/neandertal-introgression-1000-genomes-style-2011.html
Here’s a story that showed up in my feed this morning: “Prehistoric man ate panda, claims scientist”.
The LA Times has an interesting article about modern cave life in Shaanxi: “In China, millions make themselves at home in caves”.
For our project to understand pigmentation genetics in archaic humans, we had to find a good comparative sample of sequence data from recent humans. The orig...
Homo erectus entered Asia as early as 1.8 million years ago. One of the earliest specimens of the species is the Modjokerto skull, from Java. The spread of t...
Re: “How widespread is Denisovan ancestry today?”
Gigantopithecus has often been described as a bamboo eater, based on analogy with another kind of large herbivore in China, the giant panda. Giant pandas hav...
Gigantopithecus blacki was, as its name implies, a gigantic ape from the Pleistocene of China. Its remains consist only of teeth and jaws, but these are of a...
David Reich and colleagues today report on the persistence of Denisova-like ancestry in island Southeast Asia and Australia (citation not yet available). Mea...
Fascinating: “Unique Canine Tooth from ‘Peking Man’ Found in Swedish Museum Collection”
When last we saw the Vi 33.16 X chromosome, I was wresting out its secrets by looking for SNP haplotypes shared by this Neandertal with the European and Afri...
Re: Denisova:
A 100,000-year-old modern human from China? That’s the claim made by Liu and colleagues Liu:Zhirendong:2010, who report on a mandible and isolated teeth from...
I’m using some statistics out of William Boyd’s 1956 printing of Genetics and the Races of ManBoyd:1956. It gives a good accounting of blood group data known...
Murray Cox and Michael Hammer have a short commentary piece in the current BMC Biology, titled, “A question of scale: Human migrations writ large and small” ...
My post about the Tibetan high altitude selection story last Friday summarized the research and included some criticism of the demographic model applied in t...
Did the altitude of the Tibetan plateau lead to the fastest instance of human adaptation yet known?
Razib: “OCA2 makes East Asians white and Europeans blue.”He discusses a study out of Esteban Parra’s lab in PLoS Genetics (open access), which characterizes ...
Science journalist Richard Stone writes in the current Science about new Late Pleistocene skeletal remains from Guangxi: “Signs of Early Homo sapiens in Chin...
From China Daily:
In last week’s Nature, Russell Ciochon has a remarkable essay: