Link: Earliest cancer in the fossil hominin record
A nice piece in The Conversation by Edward Odes and Patrick Randolph-Quinney describing their research into the tumors afflicting ancient specimens from Swar...
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Link: Discover magazine on South African hominin sites
Discover magazine did its March, 2016 cover story on the recent hominin discoveries of South Africa, including Rising Star and Malapa, and other important fi...
Australopithecus sediba fossils now on MorphoSource
Lee Berger gave the luncheon plenary lecture at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists last Saturday, covering the recent discov...
Interview with Lee Berger
As many readers know, I recently offered a massive open online course (MOOC), titled “Human Evolution Past and Future”. The course included video interviews ...
Malapa protective structure opens
The Gauteng Tourism Authority has a nice article about the opening of the protective structure over the paleoanthropological site of Malapa: “Malapa Structur...
Rising Star: Malapa and darkness
My most recent post on the Rising Star Expedition blog describes the team’s “Field Trip to Malapa”. Some context from another early hominin site:
An Australopithecus sediba paean
Kate Wong: “Is Australopithecus sediba the Most Important Human Ancestor Discovery Ever?”
Update, March 2013
We want to thank everyone who has assisted with the project. If you’re just arriving here, welcome!
Drilling past the feathers
An article by Veronique Greenwood covers the discovery of feathers on a North American dinosaur: “Paleontologists Uncover the First Feathered Dinosaur Fossil...
Malapa conversation on NPR
The “Science Friday” NPR show with Ira Flatow did an interview with Lee Berger and Bernard Wood yesterday about Australopithecus sediba. The transcript is no...
The Australopithecus sediba hand
My photo of the hand (cast) of MH2:
Variation in talus morphology shows the sample
This is the kind of thing I never get tired of: Figure S7 from the supplement of the Malapa foot paper by Bernhard Zipfel and colleagues Zipfel:Malapa:2011.
Synchotron illustration
In the supplement of Kristian Carlson and colleagues’ paper on the MH1 endocast Carlson:Malapa:2011, there’s a nice comparison of the medical CT versus synch...
The Malapa Soft Tissue Project FAQ
These are a few of the questions that I think are essential to understand our aims with the project and how we expect it will unfold. The future depends on w...
Announcing the Malapa Soft Tissue Project
I am pleased to announce a new open science initiative, focused on a discovery that is unique in paleoanthropology. Together we are going to find out if the ...
Australopithecus sediba in National Geographic
National Geographic has posted text from Josh Fischman’s August article about Australopithecus sediba: “Malapa fossils”.
A visit to Malapa
I’m visiting at the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand this week. Lee Berger has been a really wonderful host and among other t...
Malapa MH 1 fossil given nickname
They held a contest for schoolchildren to give a nickname to the new MH 1 skeleton, and now they’ve made a choice:
Malapa and the "problem" skull KNM-ER 1813
The announcement of the Malapa skeletons has many of us going back to descriptions of early Homo. After the paper by Berger and colleagues came out last mont...
Shrinking erectus
Ann Gibbons reports on the AAPA meetings with a story about all the Homo erectus pelvis and stature papers (“Human ancestor caught in the midst of a makeover...
Malapa synchotronic
More on the scanning of the MH1 skull in this press release: “First studies of fossil of new human ancestor take place at the European Synchrotron”
Malapa news
A story about Malapa in the Times of South Africa gives just a few more details about the discovery of the infant remains near the two reported skeletons: “B...
Malapa pictures
National Geographic, as you might expect, has some nice pictures of the MH1 skull in a news story: “Pictures: New human ancestor fossils found”. There’s one ...
Malapa embargo story
Ivan Oransky writes “Embargo Watch”, which reports on issues related to journal embargoes and science reporting. His story about the Malapa embargo “break” l...
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...
Malapa surfacing
Richard Gray of The Telegraph has a story about the upcoming Malapa hominin announcement: “Missing link between man and apes found”