The foramen magnum does not point to locomotor adaptation
Aidan Ruth and colleagues in the Journal of Human Evolution have an interesting paper with the seemingly counter-intuitive result that foramen magnum orienta...
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Notable: Scapula morphology in humans and African apes
Notable paper: Green, David J., Ted A. Spiewak, Brielle Seitelman and Philipp Gunz. 2016. Scapular shape of extant hominoids and the African ape/modern human...
Primate vertebral numbers
Between the skull and the sacrum, humans have 24 vertebrae. Well, most humans, anyway. Sometimes humans have a few more or less.
Tracking endurance
Outside magazine has a long article (“Fair Chase”) describing how some running enthusiasts recruited world-class marathoners to try to run down a pronghorn i...
What, if anything, is Australopithecus sediba?
Today we finally get to learn about the exceptional discovery of four partial hominin skeletons from Malapa Cave, South Africa. Two of the fossil skeletons a...
Ardipithecus proportions
The composite photo included in the main paper by White and colleagues (2009) is very poorly scaled. For example, the measurements given by Lovejoy and colle...
Ankles of the australopithecines
Recent University of Michigan Ph.D. Jeremy DeSilva gets some nice press about his work demonstrating that fossil hominins didn’t climb like chimpanzees: