Anthropology 105, lecture 5: Hemoglobin
In this lecture, I do a bit of a departure by discussing a body part that is microscopic: the hemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen inside of our red blood...
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Meet Aegyptopithecus
At this station are casts of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis. This species comes from the Oligocene, approximately 30 million years ago. It is from the Fayum fossil b...
Were there Cretaceous anthropoids? Part 3: Ghost lineages
I’ve been giving the background to the question, “Were there Cretaceous anthropoids?” (“The problem in a nutshell”, “What is an anthropoid?”)
Quote: Osborn on biogeography
Henry Fairfield Osborn, “Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert”: