How mice became house mice
A new paper from Thomas Cucchi and coworkers in Scientific Reports probes the early history of the house mouse: “Tracking the Near Eastern origins and Europe...
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Link: Looking at the Misliya Cave maxilla
Bruce Bower last week had a nice article about the new Misliya Cave dating in Science News: “An ancient jaw pushes humans’ African departure back in time”.
Photo: Qafzeh 11 and Qafzeh 9
This week I’ve been at the Vienna Natural History Museum to do some work. It’s one of the great museums of the world, and they have a new human evolution exh...
Dead Dead Sea prehistory
Emily Sohn reports on a drilling project that is bringing to light ancient drying episodes in the Dead Sea basin: “A dry Dead Sea before biblical times”.
The fishy spaces of the Middle Pleistocene
In Science this week, Nira Alperson-Afil and colleagues report on recent excavations at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel. I saw some of this research presented a...
Qafzeh teeth like Neandertals
Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg and Donald Reid report on the perikymata spacing of a sample of fourteen anterior teeth from Qafzeh. These are “early modern humans...
African origins and phenotypic variance
I just read the new paper by Philipp Gunz and colleagues, titled, “Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided population structure and a complex out-of...