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i think the wrists too. And the brain structures seen in the endocast also appeared too primitive to be HSS. Quite true from what I've been reading Dannan. The navicular process (wrist bones) have been described as most similar to the Australopithicines. Plus the endocasts show a brain imprint with...

I certainly agree with it hittin' the fan Min. This article has been posted to most scientific forums already. Charlie Hatchett has it up in at least three. By tomorrow there will be some excellent opinions put forward, and if there is anything earthshaking I'll get back and share it. This is a big ...

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/evolution/introgression/joyce-dalton-interbreeding-2010.html A new blog by John Hawks on the new report that we all are carrying archaic genes from another species of human. The report and article was out two days ago and Hawks has a link to it in his blog. The in...

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/sed ... -2010.html

A long blog by Hawks on A. Sediba. Seems like he might be willing to accept it's designation as Homo - with reservations.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 60581.aspx

A good article on the new homo discovery.

http://www.livescience.com/history/new-hominid-human-ancestor-100408.html As intriguing as the new fossil is, "it's not everything the rumor mill said it was going to be," said paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "It's not a missing link." Fi...

HE was already on Java by 1,57 mya. So he either walked there or boated/rafted there. The boat/raft supporters will consequently have to accept that HE knew about boating/rafting long before he stood on the beach of New Guinea facing Oz. So getting across was feasible. They knew about boating/rafti...

http://cbs4.com/local/RECORD.LOW.TEMPERATURE.2.1607771.html [quote]Forecasters sat March set record cold readings for Miami Beach, which was 5.8 degrees colder than normal, on average, and for Naples, where the average temperature was almost a degree colder than the previous record. Forecasters say,...

maintain that they have great difficulty distinguishing between late HE and early HSS. Some do. After all, this is China, and the Communist gov't would love to be the center of all mankind. So there is, indeed, a movement that wants to promote an Out of China theory for the origin of mankind. Most ...

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nu ... e-mutation

The lactose tolerant gene only appeared 11-12 thousand yrs. ago. So it's still not spread to far outside of Europe, where it originated.

Hawks wasted no time, although he also says we'll have to wait till Thursday. Richard Gray of The Telegraph has a story about the upcoming Malapa hominin announcement: "Missing link between man and apes found" Palaeontologists and human evolutionary experts behind the discovery have remain...

I'm still not sure that the distinction means much in practical terms.

I agree with that. I think though, that the documentary that you're speaking of was about the classic Erectus from Africa.
Still not a lot of difference, but evolved slightly different skeletal morphology.

Experts who have seen the skeleton say it shares characteristics with Homo habilis, whose emergence 2.5 million years ago is seen as a key stage in the evolution of our species. If this is true, that this skeleton is an immediate precurser to H. Habilis, this could turn into a big deal. Time will t...

There is still a lot of talk about it.

I forgot to mention that I don't think I've missed a post by John Hawks in about five years. Glad you read him.