Things You Would Like To See

Science Daily has an item concerning the Laetoli foot print study in PLoS One. One bit stands out: The subjects walked both with normal, erect human gaits and then with crouched, chimpanzee-like gaits. Film of the latter would be interesting – lord knows we were disappointed with last year’s Ardipithecus special on that score… Speaking [...]

Ardipithecus ramidus At The Panda’s Thumb

I have the first, of several, posts up on Ardipithecus ramidus at The Panda’s Thumb. It covers the geological, enivonmental, and taphonomic background. I hope you like it, it is my first contribution to PT – other than the links page (I am in charge of the links page at PT so if you know [...]

Ardipithecus and Glynn Isaac

So I’m reading all the material on Ardipithecus ramidus when I got to the paper on macrovertebrates. It is interesting, but most of the way through I kept thinking of a paper by Glynn Isaac called Stone Age visiting cards: approaches to the study of early land use patterns. It’s not cited in any of [...]

Happy Fifth Blogiversary To Me

Yup, five years ago today I wrote my first post. It is kind of hard to believe that I have been around doing this for that long and I am starting to feel like one of the senior citizens in the science blogosphere – but there are others that have been around longer. I had [...]