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• Stone Tipped Spears Used 500,000 Years Ago

  

  Combining two tools with binding and glue (e.g. creating a spear out of a wooden shaft and stone tip) is known as “hafting.” This combined technology was an... Read more

  The 05 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• 400,000 Year Old DNA Confuses and Surprises (conprises?)

  

  Atapuerca is a series of Spanish caves that document almost a million years of human pre-history, from 1.2 million years ago to a mere 200,000 years ago. Read more

  The 11 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• How Did We Move Before We Walked Upright?

  

  There’s something of a paradox in the story of human evolution. Chimps are our closet living relatives and they knuckle-walk. Yet there’s no evidence of any of... Read more

  The 17 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Early Humans Were Hunting 1.8 Million Years Ago

  

  Modern humans eat more meat than any other living ape. Although chimps have been seen hunting with spears, meat still only makes up ~3% of their diet yet it... Read more

  The 03 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Skull Spotting Part 2

  

  As the new Dmanisi finds show, species can be difficult to spot and define in the fossil record. To circumvent this problem some palaeoanthropologists divide th... Read more

  The 04 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Are Orang-utans Our Closest Living Relatives?

  

  This week we have another excellent question (abridged slightly) from Art, who asks….In 1987, as you probably know, Schwartz published THE RED APE, in which he... Read more

  The 11 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Mutation Increases Size of Hippocampus

  

  Interestingly wikipedia tells me the hippocampus is named after the seahorse (whose latin name is Hippocampus), as it resembles oneThe hippocampus is a region o... Read more

  The 20 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Bonobos Beginning to Diverge

  

  The Bonobo territory, criss-crossed with riversBonobos are cousins of the common chimp, famous for being less violent and more sexually liberal than their... Read more

  The 22 December 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Happy Holidays

  

  from all the project staff and research assistants at Lajuma! We would like to offer our thanks to everyone who supported or worked with us in 2013 and send... Read more

  The 26 December 2013 by   Iratemonkey
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• Two New Books on Evolution

  

  Here are two new books on evolution. I wrote chapters for both :o Predicting Evolution and Visualizing High-Dimensional Fitness Landscapes Effects of Epistasis... Read more

  The 02 December 2013 by   Bjornostman
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