Photo: Sunrise over the Omo River
Another beautiful view from last week’s travel in Ethiopia:
Another beautiful view from last week’s travel in Ethiopia:
Moonset in Turmi, Ethiopia:
I spent the last week trekking through southern Ethiopia.
There's nothing especially surprising about the functional interpretations in Richmond and Jungers' paper about the Orrorin BAR 1002'00 femur. They conclude...
I've been trying to spread the interviews across the field in various directions. I (virtually) talked with Mica Glantz about Neandertals, Adam Van Arsdale ...
I noticed that the cover of the most recent New Scientist is a story about modern human origins by science writer Dan Jones. It's headlined, "Going global: ...
Just noticing, in this John Noble Wilford article:
I'm starting a new tradition here, the "Broadly Consistent Watch." If you see that headline, you can be sure I'll be noting an abuse of the term "broadly co...
Michelle Drapeau and colleagues (2005) report on the AL 438-1 specimen from Hadar. The specimen consists of "part of the mandible, a frontal bone fragment, ...
The news stories (nature.com) are focusing on the idea that the “earliest” modern humans are now 35,000 years earlier than they had been. This is the amount ...
Elton and colleagues (2001) examined the record of brain size in early Homo with the following question in mind: we know that brain size increased in this l...