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Bill Jungers' conclusions on Homo floresiensis bipedalism -- the clown-footed hominin

More reports have been coming out of last week’s meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and one that has caught my attention is a news article summarizing Bill Jungers… more »

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Darwin's embryo drawings flawed? — 9 comments

Troy Britain wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m moving this up from comments because it involves a particular interest of mine, embryology … more »

Tags: antievolution, Creationism, Defending evolution, Developmental Biology, EMBRYOLOGY

Bill Jungers' conclusions on Homo floresiensis bipedalism -- the clown-footed hominin — 5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: More reports have been coming out of last week’s meeting of the American Association of Physic … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology

What is unique about the human arcuate fasciculus... and what does it have to do with language? — 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: Despite the fact that I’ve seen some really impactful primate related research lately, I … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Blog

A Multivariate Analysis of Orrorin tugenensis and the Ancestry of Bipedalism — 5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 months ago: Tomorrow’s issue of the Science will host a reinvestigation of the famous (or infamous?) Orror … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog

A Human Ancestor for the Apes? — 51 comments

afiller wrote 5 months ago: Do we really need to consider turning everything upside down by considering the existence of a human … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology

A Faster Rate of Dental Development in the Scladina Neandertal — 2 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 5 months ago: I have been really anticipating the following study. The first press releases came out in March and … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology

Sexual Dimorphism & Social Behavior of Paranthropus robustus

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 5 months ago: This week, we saw a short paper in Science on Paranthropus robustus sexual dimorphism and the implic … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog

Aaron Filler's Morotopithecus bipedalism — 3 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 7 months ago: I’ve been under the radar for several days. I’ve been struggling to understand this pape … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology

Homo floresiensis' Primitive Wrist — 18 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 8 months ago: I’ve done so much flip flopping on whether or not Homo floresiensis is in fact a new species o … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology