Are three-rooted molars evidence of Denisovan introgression in Asia?
During the 1980s and 1990s, the idea of multiregional evolution of modern humans was based upon the observation that today’s people living in various regions...
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Quote: Two competing hypotheses
A 2015 review paper on archaic human introgression by Fernando Racimo and coworkers has a wonderfully succinct summary of the modern human origins debate:
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...
Schools of fish, schools of thought
Kate Shaw enters a report in the science section of Wired on a paper that modeled decision-making in animal groups: “How ignorance could improve group decisi...
HLA class-I loci in Neandertals and Denisova
With draft sequences of genomes from several Neandertals and from Denisova, we can begin to investigate known human variations that affect phenotypes. In pra...
Milford and Razib on bloggingheads.tv
It’s Milford Wolpoff and Razib Khan on bloggingheads.tv!
The Liang Bua debate, continued
Note: I wrote this post in 2005. We have learned much since then about the context of the Liang Bua fossils and archaeological record. These have changed the...