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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Publishing raw data
The journal Paleoanthropology makes an obvious, but bold, step forward for our field: In this issue of PaleoAnthropology, we inaugurate a new section, titled “The Data Bank.”As its name suggests, this section will include raw data from excavations, anatomical, and … Continue reading
Lineages, species and Michigan, part 2
I will have to follow up with my own comments later, but I wanted to direct you to Ken Weiss’s follow-up piece to his comments on the single-species hypothesis yesterday. I will make one brief observation, though. Ken writes: But … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged Late Pleistocene, modern human origins, Neandertals
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Yellow legal pads
Elizabeth Pennisi has a great news story for Science on the development of nanopore sequencing techniques. This is the technology that, at least at the moment, seems best positioned to dramatically decrease the cost of genomic sequencing and spread the … Continue reading
Quote of the Day: race, genomics and research
While most researchers do not claim to know the exact root of health disparities, all believe genomics will increasingly play a central role where other fields have failed. Though researchers might want to start with strict genomic populations, with minority … Continue reading
Lineages, species and Michigan
One of the posts that I have had in draft form for several months, waiting for the proper motivation and approach to finalize, is titled, “lineages and species in the fossil record.” This week, perhaps, the time and motivation has … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged modern human origins, Pleistocene, single-species hypothesis
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Weekend wag the dog: 5/11/12
In this week’s weekend wag the dog, Clifford and Gracie bravely face down their first exposure to finals at Wellesley.
The teaching sweetspot
I spent most of my day yesterday learning from colleagues about the special challenges and opportunities associated with teaching first-year college students in preparation for teaching a first-year seminar course next Fall titled, “The Anthropology of Food.” I have actually … Continue reading
The human gut microbiome
One of the really exciting developments within evolutionary and human biology over the past decade has been the gradual expansion in understanding of what an individual represents. Not much more than a decade ago, a lot of people might have … Continue reading
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Gorillas on film
The NY Times science section has video, taken from a camera trap operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society, showing a group of Cross River gorillas in Cameroon. It is just two minutes, but it includes a couple of interesting events, … Continue reading