Photo: Sunrise over the Omo River
Another beautiful view from last week’s travel in Ethiopia:
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Photo: Ethiopian moonset
Moonset in Turmi, Ethiopia:
My travels in Ethiopia
I spent the last week trekking through southern Ethiopia.
The Orrorin identity
There's nothing especially surprising about the functional interpretations in Richmond and Jungers' paper about the Orrorin BAR 1002'00 femur. They conclude...
An interview with Michelle Drapeau
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 ...
Maybe Chinese fire drills explain the date discrepancies
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: ...
Is a lack of fossils the problem with early Homo?
Just noticing, in this John Noble Wilford article:
BROADLY CONSISTENT WATCH I
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...
AL 438-1
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, ...
Omo Kibish redating
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 ...
Brain expansion in A. boisei
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...