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 ...
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When anthropological and geological facts collide
This passage is the first paragraph of the introduction to Franz Weidenreich’s monograph, The Skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis</em> Weidenreich:ZKD:194...
Asian Homo erectus
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...
Asian Homo erectus
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...
Open every box
Fascinating: “Unique Canine Tooth from ‘Peking Man’ Found in Swedish Museum Collection”
Quote: Boyd on New World pigmentation clines
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...
The changing height of Homo erectus
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...
Zhoukoudian cave site in danger of collapse
From China Daily:
A Mongolian hominid
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...
A new Middle Pleistocene hominid from Turkey
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...
Casts don't substitute for fossils
Slate's Scott Solomon asked some people, and presents a nice, short explanation of why original fossils are important to paleoanthropology:
French Connection to China Syndrome, dentally
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...
Tianyuan
OK, NEWS FLASH: "Out of Africa dispersal was not as simple as once thought."
New news in New World settlement
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...
The Peking Man Skulls Searching Committee
AFP is reporting possible progress in the hunt for the missing Zhoukoudian bones (via Palanthsci):
"Ape to Man" to debut Sunday evening
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...
You heard it here first :: hobbits are australopithecines!
This is Richard Roberts in an Australian radio interview (the interview is formatted in one-sentence paragraphs, this is a single contiguous excerpt):