Morphological integration in the hominid midfoot Klara Komza cs 2022 J.hum.Evol.170:103231 doi 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103231 The calculation of morphological integration across living apes & humans may

Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech Takeshi Nishimura cs 2022 Science 377:760-3 doi 10.1126/science.abm1574 Human speech production obeys the same acoust

Dear friends, It has been unnoticed until now that diploic veins are highly developed in our species and among marine mammals. I was originally trying to study diploid veins (that grow between the int

Greetings, My favorite Geneticist, Dr. Shi Huang, just tweeted this interesting paper (see link below). It disproves the infinite site model and the end of the Molecular Clock (ridiculously short 4-6m

- The atypical tooth wear in archaic Homo was caused by "sand & oral processing of marine mollusks" (Towle cs 2022 doi 10.1002/ajpa.24500). - H.erectus was originally found amid shellfish & barnacles:

Humans settled in North America 17,000 years EARLIER than previously believed: Bones of mammoth and her calf found at an ancient butchering site in New Mexico show they were killed by people 37,000 ye

Elaine Morgan and “The Descent of Woman” https://www.ladyscience.com/features/elaine-morgan-and-the-descent-of-woman-2021?fbclid=IwAR2VGjcCaXFaJ4J1-JCGqX52nW71PnvBKHk3LLRaBQgYJhuY06pGm7YGoyw

From Algis: Dear One and All, Please consider yourself most cordially invited to the 10th in our WHAT Talks series, this coming Sunday (7th August) at 8pm (West Australian Time). The Zoom link is at t

https://www.wpr.org/human-feet-are-terrible-evolutionarily-speaking Human feet are terrible, evolutionarily speaking A lot of folks think that the origins of our lineage — going back to Darwin's time

Found this Academia paper interesting. Our singing came from a Hylobate-like singing ape. Orang, Chimp and Gorilla stayed on the ground and lost singing but homo somehow kept it. Singing may be anothe

Atypical tooth wear found in fossil hominins also present in a Japanese macaque population Ian Towle cs 2022 Am J Biol Anthropol. 2022:1–11 10.1002/ajpa.24500 Atypical tooth-wear - macroscopically vis

Just sent something like this to sci.anthropology.paleo: 1) India approaching Eurasia: fm of island archipels, full of coastal forests = cercopithecoid/hominoid split: catarrhines reaching these becam

RESENDING From: gareth morgan <garethmorgan@...> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 6:18 PM To: AAT@groups.io <AAT@groups.io> Subject: Re: [AAT] Looks like the neutral Theory and Molecular Clock has finall

The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo ch.8 in F.E. Grine cs eds 2009 ch.8 Vertebrate Paleobiology & Paleoanthropology, The Evolutionary Question Posed by Human Running Capabil

For Neanderthals, I can recommend "Kindred", by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. I found lots of interesting information that attests to diving over hunting, although the author doesn't necessarily see it. https:

Hi Algis, thanks a lot for your excellent WHAT-talks! Peter Rhys-Evans: 74 % of neandertals had ear exostoses, and males>females: apparently all neandertal men & many women very frequently dived: at l

Whale sharks are world’s biggest omnivores, study finds | Sharks | The Guardian Whale sharks are world’s biggest omnivores, study finds Scientists made the discovery while studying whale sharks off We

The Acheulo-Yabrudian – Early Middle Paleolithic Sequence of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel Mina Weinstein-Evron & Yossi Zaidner 2017 ch.14 in A.Marom & E.Hovers eds. Human Paleontology and Prehis

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