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Been looking for a copy of The Stone Age of Mt. Carmel for a long, long time. Also Phillip Tobias’ The Brain in Hominid Evolution…

Neanderthals, Brain Size, and Maturation: Does Breastfeeding or Fish Eating Have an Impact?

As I mentioned here there is a new article out concerning Neanderthal brain size and life history. In some ways, this is the continuance of a debate started by Trinkaus a number of years ago.

The Atapuerca Hyoids

Greg Laden has a write up of the 1.1-1.2 MYA find at Atapuerca. I mentioned this story last year and the find has finally been published. I will have more to say about this in a later post (there are several other papers out that relate – I also plan on writing about the Homo […]

The Juvenile Australopithecus afarensis

Nature has an interesting series of videos on the find.