Dmanisi ‘single species’ claim draws critics
Last week Science printed an exchange of technical comments on the topic of the Dmanisi skull 5. The skull was described in a paper last fall (Lordkipanidze ...
All posts tagged with Homo rudolfensis
What do we know about early hominin relationships?
Ten years ago I published a paper on the failure of cladistics to resolve questions of early hominin relationships. My study used computer simulation to prod...
Popularity of hominin species names
I was curious about the use of Homo ergaster over time. It seems to me that fewer and fewer paleoanthropologists have been using it over the last few years. ...
The new skull from Dmanisi
It smells like ashes. Holding it and examining it is really not like the other fossil crania I’ve studied. The other Dmanisi crania strike me as being very l...
Koobi Fora perspectives
I’m in Kansas and my internet is spottier here than it was in Africa. So I have a bunch of thoughts about the new Koobi Fora fossils published by Maeve Leake...
Sketchbook
Today’s sketchbook:
KNM-ER 1470 is not a microcephalic
I keep seeing this story about Tim Bromage's "computer-simulated" reconstruction of KNM-ER 1470.
Snapshots of the science
The new Human Origins hall at the American Museum is the occasion for a big Newsweek story, with the tagline, "The New Science of Human Evolution". Author S...
A revised chronology for early Homo
In case you haven't been paying attention, the chronology of early African Homo has been completely turned upside-down this year. Well, "upside-down" isn't ...
Dmanisi in National Geographic
The article in the April 2005 National Geographic about Dmanisi has some interesting details that have not been made public before. The feature of the artic...
Dental growth in early Homo
Dean and colleagues (2001) present a study of perikymata counts of anterior teeth (incisors and canines) in early humans and australopithecines, compared to...
Tooth anatomy and diet in australopithecines and early humans
Peter Ungar (2004) investigated the dietary adaptations of A. afarensis and early Homo by looking at the three-dimensional topography of their teeth. the sh...