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November 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« on: November 06, 2011, 01:14:09 pm »
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Rethinking those footprints at Laetoli:
http://www.livescience.com/16894-human-ancestor-laetoli-footprints-family.html

Genetics suggest humans first left Africa by crossing into Arabia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15565654
 
Meanwhile, based on dental evidence homo sapiens arrived in Europe earlier than previously thought:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-homo-sapiens-europe-earlier-previously.html
 
... I'm not certain how this Torquay spin fits into this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/8864941/Earliest-known-European-died-in-Torquay.html
 
... although some coverage does seem to pull the two together:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15540464
 
... and we're still hearing about the interbreeding thing, but it seems to involve even more species (?):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-genes-neanderthal-relatives-unusual.html
 
... and the implications of Neanderthals' short legs:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/10/neanderthals-made-for-mountaineering/

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Re: November 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2011, 02:14:32 pm »
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Neanderthals were the first inhabitants of the Greek islands:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/11/10/neanderthal-men-first-inhabitants-of-greek-islands/

Coverage of the 'accuracy' of depictions of spotted horses in various caves:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111107162225.htm
 
On cooking and human evolution:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-cooking-energy-meat-driven-human.html

I think we had this homo floresiensis v birds story quite a while ago:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/06/ancient-bird-remains-illuminate-lost-world-of-indonesias-hobbits/

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Re: November 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 12:16:40 pm »
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I'm dizzy from all the spins being put on this one .... that whole human-Neanderthal interbreeding thing is now being suggested as the reason for Neanderthal demise (along with climate change):
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19362149
http://news.discovery.com/history/neanderthals-adapt-climate-change-111118.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2062696/Neanderthals-clever-interbred-impressed-humans-say-experts.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063895/Climate-change-accelerated-human-evolution.html

... how it was spun into 'globalization' is beyond me:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hNWCUj57Xl0VoAciQ5St2uU00JTw?docId=N0713371321540641793A

Lots of hype for the Natural History Museum's acquisition of a couple of replica skeletons of sediba:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51864
 
... which apparently have skin on them?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2062842/2m-year-old-Natural-History-Museum-skeletons-skin-them.html

... or (more likely) is it the original fossils which may have skin:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21179-skeleton-of-ancient-human-relative-may-yield-skin.html

In any event, you know they've also done a facial reconstruction:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2062514/Revealed-The-face-missing-link-ape-man.html

Interesting feature on how they dated the sediba remains:
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20111311-22832.html

Meanwhile, a group is studying the effects of climate change on evolution/development of hominins:
http://asunews.asu.edu/20111117_humanecology
 
... and in case you were confused (as I was a while back) about the shift from hominid to hominin:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/11/whats-in-a-name-hominid-versus-hominin/

Something about Neanderthal neuroscience:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/

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Re: November 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2011, 12:12:32 pm »
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On the earliest words hominins might have uttered:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065375/Doh-mans-words--Homer-Simpson-proud.html

Not quite sure where to put this one ... a skull in China shows the earliest evidence of violence among early humans:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15823272
 
More on interbreeding not being a good thing for the Neanderthal set:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111125-neanderthals-sex-humans-dna-science-extinct/
 
More on using technology to find potential fossil sites:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-human-artificial-intelligence-fossil.html

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