Jacobs et al '08 – Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa:...
In today’s Science, Jacobs et al discuss Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal: The expansion of modern human populations in Africa 80,000 to...
View ArticleMigration: An engine for social change
In today’s Nature, Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that migration is an engine of social change because the movement of people into societies that offer a better way of life is a more powerful...
View ArticleThe problems with Paleofantasies
Marlene Zuk in the New York Times attacks a core belief of Evolutionary Psychology: Remember when life was simpler, and diets weren’t full of processed food and chemicals? No, not the 1950s....
View ArticleWednesday Wiki: A list of languages by first written accounts
A List of languages by first written accounts. This is a list of languages by first written accounts which consists of the approximate dates for the first written accounts that are known for various...
View ArticleA Single Origin for Dogs South of Yangtze River
An interesting paper on the origin of dogs in the forthcoming issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution – mtDNA Data Indicate a Single Origin for Dogs South of Yangtze River, Less Than 16,300 Years Ago,...
View ArticleTuberculosis in Dr Granville's mummy
Tuberculosis in Dr Granville’s mummy: a molecular re-examination of the earliest known Egyptian mummy to be scientifically examined and given a medical diagnosis: ‘Dr Granville's mummy’ was described...
View ArticleKim Sterelny on Human Evolution
Human evolutionary change has been rapid and extensive; so much so that the genetic similarity and recent divergence between the human and the chimp lineages came as a profound surprise. Three million...
View ArticleKon-Tiki – The film about Thor Heyerdahl’s 1950 voyage
Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in 1950. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and...
View Articleof absolutely no consequence to archaeological scholarship
In The Onion – Archaeologists Unearth Lousiest Civilization Ever: Archaeologists working in a remote section of the Amazon Rainforest announced Tuesday that they have discovered the ancient remnants of...
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