What You Can Learn From Bone Fragments: Porotic Hyperostosis And Meat Eating

I meant to write about this article back when it first came out in 2012. As you can see from the title, I was going to use it as part of my “What You Can Learn From Bone Fragments” series. In rereading the article and doing a little research to refresh my memory I have changed my mind about its usefulness in learning things from bone fragments.

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

So, it has been about six years since I have done any blogging and I have decided it is time to start writing again. A lot has changed since I blogged on a regular basis. A lot of the blogs on my blogroll are defunct. Academia.edu and Research Gate have made finding papers much easier. Homo naledi was discovered, ancient DNA research has uncovered more ancient lineages of humans (sending the out of Africa vs. multiregional continuity debate in a completely different direction), ID seems dead, who knows what all has happened in other fields of anthropology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology.

I have already edited my blog roll and will be adding some new blogs in the next few days. I plan on continuing some of the series I had started previously such as: Know Your Primate, Know Your Hominin, Science Paper of the Week, among others. I will probably start slow with a couple of posts a week until I can get back in the swing of things.

Also, if you like fly fishing and fly tying check out my other blog Going Fly Fishing