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The Galili Femur
It has been a while since I blogged anything on paleoanthropology. But once I saw John Hawks‘ post where he pointed out Elizabeth Culotta’s news piece in the latest Science on a new homini… more →
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The feet of Ardipithecus ramidus
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zinjanthropus wrote 2 months ago: We’ve already covered Ardi’s hands here, so let’s move on to what is possibly the … more →
Did knuckle-walking evolve twice?
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zinjanthropus wrote 3 months ago: Knuckle-walking is a pretty special mode of locomotion. Amongst primates, only the African apes do i … more →
Humans Evolved From Tree Climbers
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Prancing Papio, FCD wrote 3 months ago: A research from Duke University by Daniel Schmitt, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, … more →
Our Knuckle-Walking Ancestor?
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afarensis, FCD wrote 3 months ago: One of the, more many, interesting debates in paleoanthropology concerns the question of whether our … more →
Bare Feet
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zinjanthropus wrote 4 months ago: Wired has an interesting story on barefoot running (hat tip to Gene Expression), with some special c … more →
Flip Flop Biomechanics
zinjanthropus wrote 4 months ago: This is a post from an older incarnation of this blog. I’ve imported it in honor of the summe … more →
Hominids: Which Ones Walked Upright?
Lisa A. Shiel wrote 5 months ago: Who walked upright first? You’d think the answer would come easily. It doesn’t. Modern humans walk u … more →
The big hole in your head (Picture-heavy post!)
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zinjanthropus wrote 5 months ago: When an animal is walking around doing whatever that particular animal does for a living, its eyes a … more →
*Toes: The True Story
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Lilian Nattel wrote 7 months ago: I’ve read about wolf toes, designed for hunting in packs, and tiger toes, for hunting alone. B … more →
Human Ichnology: Turkana-style
zinjanthropus wrote 9 months ago: About 1.5 million years ago, a Homo erectus went for a walk, pausing to observe her surrounding land … more →
happy birthday mr. darwin
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jenkapotente wrote 9 months ago: I was really excited when my Research Methods class was dismissed early because I was able to catch … more →
Breaking Eve
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annabones wrote 9 months ago: January 21st 1982. My mother’s pelvic bones are too small for my head and she will need a cesa … more →
Love for Lucy
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zinjanthropus wrote 9 months ago: I don’t know why I do it to myself. Perhaps I’m a glutton for punishment and frustratio … more →
The Bipedal Pelvis
zinjanthropus wrote 1 year ago: Humans are unique among mammals in their exclusive use of a bipedal gait. While many other mammals … more →
The Galili Femur
Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: It has been a while since I blogged anything on paleoanthropology. But once I saw John Hawks‘ … more →
A Refined Ar/Ar Date For The 'Devil's Footprints' From The Roccamonfina Volcano In Italy
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Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: I remember reading a short announcement in 2003 about the discovery of 385,000–325,000 years old hum … more →
Erik Trinkhaus, Tianyuan 1 and Sunghir 1, and the Earliest 'Evidence' of Footwear
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Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: Erik Trinkhaus published a study, along with Hong Shang, in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeo … more →
Did early hominins shuffle before they walked upright?
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Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: I don’t know how I missed this paper, “Stand and shuffle: When does it make energetic se … more →
Naturalis Historia: Volume IV
Lisa wrote 1 year ago: (originally written for my Evolutionary Theory class) Evolution of Bipedalism in Hominids “We … more →
