Archaic Morphology and American Indian Biological Variability
On the heels of my last post about the possibly systematic trend to ignore American Indian samples in the studies of worldwide variation, there’s a new paper dealing with the discovery of human remains...
View ArticleEarly Aurignacian Dentition and Why Paleontology Is a Moving Target
Journal of Human Evolution (In Press, Corrected Proof) The Early Aurignacian human remains from La Quina-Aval (France) Christine Verna, Véronique Dujardin, and Erik Trinkaus. There is a dearth of...
View ArticleOut-of-Africa in the Mid-Pleistocene: A New Interdisciplinary Paradigm or a...
In the comments section on this blog, Dienekes raises the issue of interdisciplinary support for the out-of-America theory. Since I’m a big proponent of interdisciplinarity, the seeming convergence of...
View ArticleA Seismic Shift in Human Origins Research, or a Downward Slide?
A new research paper is out which has created a lot of media buzz. “Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers, “ by Joseph...
View ArticleAncient Molecular and Morphometric Variation from Chile: The Death of the...
Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena Vol. 43, No 2, 2011, pp. 283-292 Morphometric and mtDNA Analyses of Archaic Skeletal Remains from Southwestern South America Germán Manríquez, Mauricio...
View ArticlePaleoamerican Odyssey Conference: Ancient Mal’ta DNA, Ice-Free Corridor, Back...
My complete paper delivered yesterday at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference in Santa Fe is now available here. I will keep updating this post as more information comes in. I’m keeping the news of...
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