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Homo floresiensis Walked Out of Africa
Skull of LB1 (Homo floresiensis, or the hobbit) Photo from Science Museum New analysis by a team led by Australian National University doctoral student Debbie Argue showed that Homo floresiensis,...
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Hobbit in the Haystack: Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution – Watch it Online!
Speaking of the Johansons and fossils … Earlier this year, I’ve blogged about the 2009 Human Evolution Leakey Symposium at Stony Brook that I went to. For more about that blog post, click here. The...
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Can I See Your Fingers Please?
That is what University of Liverpool’s Emma Nelson probably would have said if she were to meet our hominan ancestors in person. Known to hold true in anthropoids (humans, apes and monkeys), the index...
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Hobbits Might Not Be A Homo After All
The controversies over the hobbits or Homo floresiensis just refuse to end. It seems that the hobbits might not be a Homo after all. I guess they found the index and ring fingers of the hobbits (Sorry,...
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Modern Humans Are Still Evolving But Will Modern Men Get Wimpier?
Two interesting articles that went into my inbox today: Modern man a wimp says anthropologist and Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving. A cover illustration from Australian anthropologist...
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Hobbits Are Indeed A Separate Species, Said Researchers.
Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York confirmed that the Hobbits, or Homo floresiensis, are indeed a separate “human” species instead of a population of diseases Homo...
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Unearthed finger bone points to the possible discovery of an unknown hominin
DNA analysis from a finger bone unearthed from Denisova Cave, Siberia might lead to the discovery of an unknown hominin. Dubbed “X-Woman”, information from her mitochondrial DNA suggests that she...
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Another Homo in the family!
I just love saying, “Another Homo in the family”! Anyways, it seems like a new species of Homo has been identified from a partial skull found in Sterkfontein Caves, near Johannesburg by anthropologist...
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Early hominin ate “seafood”, possible reason for the expansion of the brain
Recent archaeological find in Koobi Fora, Kenya suggests that our early ancestors might have dined on “seafood” to compensate for the energy needed for the expansion of the brain. The excavated site...
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Keeping up with the Hominin
“Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).”...
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