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Category Archives: Evolution
Skeletal collections database
Some time ago I began slowly collecting information relating to known anthropological skeletal collections. The task quickly fell beneath more pressing obligations, but I am happy to see that someone else has had much more success. Highfantastical.com has a really … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution
Tagged data access, human osteology, skeletal collections
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Monday/Start of the semester links
During the break I was busy with typical holiday/break activities (including the first half of my daughter’s improbably exciting U11 girls’ basketball season) as well as a lot of intense reading/writing/research related activities. I’ll hopefully be blogging more about the … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Genetics
Tagged genomics, links, mutation, paleo diet
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It’s a scale, scale, scale, scale world (part 2)
Following on my post from yesterday, I wanted to write a little more specifically about the significance of scale and our session at the AAAs. Paleoanthropological data are produced and address questions at different scales. Consider the following: Fossil – … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged #AAA2012, geographic scale, scale, temporal scale
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My talk at the AAAs
If you are in the San Francisco area and interested in human evolution, you should stop by our session at the AAAs this afternoon. There is a great group of panelists who have agreed to contribute and I am excited … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Fossils
Tagged #AAA2012, modern human origins, Neandertals, Pleistocene
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Upcoming AAA meetings
I apologize for my blog silence of late. It has been a busy few weeks of writing. Later this week I am headed to the AAA meetings in San Francisco, however, and I will try to provide some updates on … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012 AAA, AAA meetings, modern human origins
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Climate change, Hurricane Sandy and contemporary human infrastructure
Late last winter I wrote a brief post about what I called the Age of Global Weirdness in relation to climate change. If there is any good that comes from the recent megastorm Sandy that has wrought havoc on the … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Evolution
Tagged climate change, Hurricane Sandy
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Math and paleoanthropology
Holding true to my promise to add more math, and reflecting the fact that class registration for the Spring semester begins next week at Wellesley, here are some thoughts on the math courses I have had that I find the … Continue reading
Thought of the day: “Modern” human origins
The first class I took that really hooked me on paleoanthropology was an undergraduate seminar on Modern Human Origins. The class was wonderful. We read a huge amount of primary literature and for whatever reason, the class, although we were … Continue reading
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Tagged modern human origins
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Scales of time and space in prehistory
Steven Kuhn, talking about the importance of matching scales of explanation with scales of evidence (2012), and citing ecologist Simon Levin (1992): Levin makes a parallel observation about ecological processes: “…if there are predictable patterns that may be observed in … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution
Tagged geographic scale, Late Pleistocene, pattern, temporal scale
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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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