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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Human longevity in prehistory
A new article in PNAS, authored by Oskar Burger, Annette Baudisch and James Vaupel, is gathering some attention to the issue of the evolutionary history of human demography and longevity. The article itself covers a lot of old ground (excuse … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Ethnography, Evolution
Tagged fertility, longevity, mortality, paleodemography
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Links for a Monday morning
Some readings from around the web to start the week… Estimating the rate of mutation and the human evolutionary clock This is a big , complex and unfolding story that I have been meaning to comment on and still hope … Continue reading
Posted in Brain, Evolution, Food, Genetics
Tagged dating, links, molecular clock, politics, scientific retraction, sushi
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Weekend wag the dog: Taphonomic mystery edition
Spotted on the forest path I regularly walk the dogs along. I am assuming this poor little fish was dropped by a bird that had fished it out of the nearby Charles River. I did not check for any marks … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged taphonomy, weekend wag the dog
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Population replacements and founder effects in humans
TREE has an article in press looking at the impact of founder events on subsequent patterns of genetic diversity. The main argument of the paper, co-authored by Waters, Fraser & Hewitt (Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity), is that … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Evolution, Genetics
Tagged Europe, extinction, Late Pleistocene, Neandertal, population change, replacement
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Updating my journal RSS feeds
As a paleoanthropologist with both teaching and research interests spanning an array of human evolutionary topics, one of my biggest challenges is attempting to keep up with current literature. I used to get e-mail alerts when new issues of journals … Continue reading
More problems with the paleodiet
In my Anthropology of Food class we have spent the past two weeks talking about the technological, dietary, cultural and population health transitions from the late Paleolithic, through the origin of agriculture, to present-day industrial-scale food production, with much of … Continue reading
More on the porotic hyperostosis at Olduvai Gorge
John Crandall and Deb Martin write a reply to Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. (which I commented on last week) that seems to broaden some of the points I raised. They like the diagnosis of porotic hyperostosis, but are skeptical of the … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged early Homo, meat, Olduvia, paleopathology, porotic hyperostosis
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Hrdlička on anthropology and medicine:
After a morning soccer game for my daughter, I decided to take advantage of the Columbus Day holiday on campus by doing a little cleaning of my office. I came across two old copies of the American Journal of Physical … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Teaching
Tagged AJPA, Aleš Hrdlička, medical school
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Weekend wag the dogs: 10/5/2012
Here comes the Fall…with a photo mockup of Clifford (left) and Gracie (right) looking on:
Meat-eating, porotic hyperostosis and early Homo
A large group of researchers working at Olduvai Gorge, including Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo (IDEA, Madrid), Charles Musiba (UC-Denver) and Henry Bunn (U. Wisconsin), have a paper out in PLOS One this week on evidence of porotic hyperostosis in a 1.5 million … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged early Homo, meat, paleo diet, paleopathology, porotic hyperostosis
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