Notable: The enamel-dentine junction of surviving Zhoukoudian teeth
Notable paper: Zanolli, C., Pan, L., Dumoncel, J., Kullmer, O., Kundrat, M., Liu, W., … & Tuniz, C. (2018). Inner tooth morphology of Homo erectus from ...
Notable paper: Zanolli, C., Pan, L., Dumoncel, J., Kullmer, O., Kundrat, M., Liu, W., … & Tuniz, C. (2018). Inner tooth morphology of Homo erectus from ...
This passage is the first paragraph of the introduction to Franz Weidenreich’s monograph, The Skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis</em> Weidenreich:ZKD:194...
Homo erectus entered Asia as early as 1.8 million years ago. One of the earliest specimens of the species is the Modjokerto skull, from Java. The spread of t...
Homo erectus entered Asia as early as 1.8 million years ago. One of the earliest specimens of the species is the Modjokerto skull, from Java. The spread of t...
Fascinating: “Unique Canine Tooth from ‘Peking Man’ Found in Swedish Museum Collection”
I’m using some statistics out of William Boyd’s 1956 printing of Genetics and the Races of ManBoyd:1956. It gives a good accounting of blood group data known...
Gretchen picked up a partial set of Time-Life volumes, from 1973, part of the series “The Emergence of Man”. She found them at a garage sale. There’s a lot o...
From China Daily:
Yves Coppens and colleagues have found a frontal bone, and a bit more, in Mongolia. They do not report a date for the specimen beyond Late Pleistocene; it c...
John Kappelman was kind enough to send me a preprint of the report on the new Turkish Middle Pleistocene specimen. The specimen consists of frontal and pari...
Slate's Scott Solomon asked some people, and presents a nice, short explanation of why original fossils are important to paleoanthropology:
I've read through the new paper by Martinón-Torres et al., on Eurasian continuity in the Middle Pleistocene. They've put out an interesting hypothesi...
OK, NEWS FLASH: "Out of Africa dispersal was not as simple as once thought."
Afarensis has a post on Brazilian evidence relating to the origins of Native Americans (via Gene Expression). It's a good summary of recent work by Neves an...
AFP is reporting possible progress in the hunt for the missing Zhoukoudian bones (via Palanthsci):
The History Channel is showing its new human evolution program, "Ape to Man" this Sunday, August 7, at 9:00 EDT / 8:00 CDT. The show has a website, which gi...
This is Richard Roberts in an Australian radio interview (the interview is formatted in one-sentence paragraphs, this is a single contiguous excerpt):