Australopithecus erotimanis, and the evolution of the human hand

WARNING:  The following post contains adult content! F rom the very beginning of formal taxonomy in biology, genus and species names have be...

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The Many Tales of “Ardi”

The Inspirational Tale Common metaphors in paleoanthropology are those of winning the lottery and being struck by lightning. But alt...

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The wait is over....Ardipithecus skeleton revealed

My own comments are coming soon, but in the meantime, here are just some of the flurry of reports about Tim White and his team's long-aw...

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Come Together … Right Now … Over Teeth

I dare say that all paleontologists, including myself, drool over papers like this one recently published in PLoS Genetics, because, as the...

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T. wrecks T.rex

A new fossil discovery has hit the press, as reported in Science onlin e and many other places, a 150 million year old HO-gauge Tyrannosau...

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