Afrasia djijidae: coolest monkey name ever
Ann Gibbons explains the importance of the new possible stem anthropoid fossil teeth from Myanmar: “Out of Asia? New Primate Fossils Pose Origin Riddle”.
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Anthropology 105, lecture 5: Hemoglobin
In this lecture, I do a bit of a departure by discussing a body part that is microscopic: the hemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen inside of our red blood...
Were there Cretaceous anthropoids? Part 3: Ghost lineages
I’ve been giving the background to the question, “Were there Cretaceous anthropoids?” (“The problem in a nutshell”, “What is an anthropoid?”)
Were there Cretaceous anthropoids? Part 2: What is an anthropoid?
This is the second post in a series, “Were there Cretaceous anthropoids?”
Were there Cretaceous anthropoids? Part 1. The problem in a nutshell
The evolution of early primates is a field that has developed rapidly in the last fifteen years. Many of the central issues were reviewed earlier this year b...
Shaken by a monkey-maker
The end of the Eocene was a rough time for a lot of Earth’s flora and fauna – it is recognized as a major extinction event, the Grande Coupure. Substantial g...