In Memoriam: Davey Jones

Bummer. Davey Jones, lead singer of the Monkees, has passed away. The cause of death was a heart attack.

Free Paleoanthropology pdfs

I am working on Ancestral Hominin Or Stem Hominid: Part Two and the post stubbornly refuses to go in the direction I want it to. In the meantime, here are a few resources for you to enjoy. The PanAfrican Association of Prehistory and Archaeology has made available the Proceedings from eleven of its conferences. There [...]

Sigh…Unemployed again…

Got the news on December 5th that the functions of my department were being transferred to Texas. Today is our last day…Been putting out resumes and applications since they told us but haven’t snagged even an interview yet…

Christopher Hitchens: In Memoriam

The world has become a little poorer today.

Missed My Seventh Blogiversery

Back on October 4th my seventh blogiversery came and went and I somehow missed it. Kind of hard to believe that I have been doing this for seven years, time has certainly flew by…

Well, That Was A Horrible Month

July sucked. Between health problems of mine, health problems of my wife’s, and doing something awful to my computer that cost me all of my book marks and email addresses, and being chronically on the verge of loosing my job July sucks. I’m better, my wife is getting better, I’m back online – sans the [...]

Technical Difficulties, Please Stand By….

See above, I hope to be back and writing soon…

In Memoriam: Lewis Binford

SMU’s website is reporting that Lewis Binford has passed away. Binford passed away on 04/11 in Kirksville, Missouri. From SMU: Binford first gained attention in 1962 as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago when he wrote a path-breaking article in American Antiquity proposing that archaeologists abandon their emphasis on cataloguing artifacts and instead [...]

Four Stone Hearth in Three Days

The next edition of the Four Stone Hearth will be hosted at The Prancing Papio on 10/13. Please get your submissions in. On a related note we are in need of hosts for 11/10 and 11/24. Contact me for details.

In Memoriam: George Williams

I am sure that most of my readers have heard that George Williams has passed away. Williams, for those of you who are unfamiliar with him, was one of the giants of evolutionary biology. His book Adaptation and Natural Selection is one of the must read classics in the field – and certainly one anthropologists [...]

Begging for an article: Part ∞

Could someone send me the article below: Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia, Nature 466, 857-860 (12 August 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature09248 Update 1: I have the article now. Thanks. Also, I hope to have the next post on rickets up tomorrow evening.

I Support ScienceBloggers!

Several more blogs have left and a number (hopefully all) are on Strike! Here is a song to entertain them as they walk the virtual picket line (no scabs need apply).

Begging for an Article

Can someone send me the article below: New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys doi:10.1038/nature09094

Happy Fourth of July: The Constitution

Usually, but not always, I post the entire Constitution on my blog. So here it is:

A Question About Phylogenetics Software

There are a number of papers with datasets in the paleoanthropological literature that I am wanting to play around with but I can’t afford PAUP. So I am throwing the question to my readers…Other than PAUP are there any good phylogenetic programs out there? Programs that can be used for continuous and discrete characters? Preferably [...]