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Uncovering new series of trackways from the famous site forty years later shows how better records and excavation practices are necessary to move the science forward.
14 Dec 2016
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A journalist participates in a dig to find out the secrets behind America's largest lost city.
13 Dec 2016
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A specialist on animal empathy looks into the behavioral underpinnings of religion.
07 Dec 2016
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A meta-analysis gives a picture of the frequency that people don't develop third molars in many populations globally.
03 Dec 2016
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Goose species are noted to hybridize very readily, similar to ducks.
01 Nov 2016
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A paper describing several new teeth goes through what scientists know about how this complex site formed.
29 Oct 2016
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A study examines the origins of today's HPV variation. Headline madness ensues.
26 Oct 2016
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Looking at fallacies about race and ancestry in training future physicians
25 Oct 2016
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An argument that most of the great things in museums are better experienced virtually.
25 Oct 2016
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Monkeys making Oldowan-like stone flakes as a side-effect of cracking fruits.
22 Oct 2016
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A pulse of volcanic caldera formation in the Ethiopian rift heated things up between 320,000 and 170,000 years ago.
19 Oct 2016
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A pioneer in evolutionary genetics emphasizes that species is a real category.
16 Oct 2016
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David Colquhoun discusses many of the misbegotten assumptions about how statistics inform conclusions.
15 Oct 2016
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Frustration about framing, stereotypes, and archaeological inference.
14 Oct 2016
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A National Geographic article recounts the discovery of many series of 19,000-year-old footprints on the Engare Saro flats.
13 Oct 2016
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An short Scientific American piece on public communication of science gets me thinking about my own experience.
09 Oct 2016
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An article in Science News brings up the recent surge in studying hybrids as models for human origins.
09 Oct 2016
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Another scientist touches on the public debate over the replication crisis.
03 Oct 2016
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A provocative claim fails the test of geochemical evidence.
02 Oct 2016
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A toddler's jaw and teeth near a series of strange hearths in Des-Cubierta Cave.
01 Oct 2016
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Ongoing work uncovers teeth that may indicate an early modern human presence after the end of Homo floresiensis.
30 Sep 2016
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An established player in social psychology describes criticism as 'methodological terrorism'. The winds are changing, says Andrew Gelman.
30 Sep 2016
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Reviewing the importance of the site since hominin fossils were discovered there in 1936
26 Sep 2016
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A previously unrecognized reservoir of trypanosomes.
25 Sep 2016
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Bedizzened.
24 Sep 2016
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Clades are not basal.
23 Sep 2016
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Ewen Callaway reports on a talk describing the hybridization and introgression among extinct elephants.
17 Sep 2016
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A Mosaic article covers the basics of the Price equation and the inventor's tragic end.
16 Sep 2016
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A look at biological traces of ancient Neandertals confirms an association.
16 Sep 2016
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Reflecting on comments by John Ioannidis, I look at some recent review articles on the Middle Pliocene fossil record.
13 Sep 2016
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An Undark article by Adam Tanner reviews the current scene of data protection.
13 Sep 2016
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Edward Odes and Patrick Randolph-Quinney describe their research on Swartkrans and Malapa tumors.
12 Sep 2016
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Pointing to an editorial that calls for greater public engagement by academics, and the relevance for anthropology.
12 Sep 2016
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Building collaboration and social networks into the exams.
11 Sep 2016
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High-ranking females combat male aggression by intervening on behalf of coalition partners.
10 Sep 2016
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A short video shows an experiment with progressive colonization of antibiotic-laced media by an evolving population of bacteria.
08 Sep 2016
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Have astronomers 'cried wolf' once too many times on Earthlike planets?
02 Sep 2016
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A farm is randomly assigned as the geographic origin for millions of IP addresses.
30 Aug 2016
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The microbes quickly shift to a new dietary environment, but what fraction is borrowed from other species?
29 Aug 2016
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A study examines the fractures in the Lucy skeleton, arguing that they are a result of massive perimortem trauma.
29 Aug 2016
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A snarling profile from 1887 by the artist Guernsey Mitchell.
11 Aug 2016
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Lengthy low walls forming shapes in the wastes of Central Asia mark the ancient hunters of a vanished Serengeti.
11 Aug 2016
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Knowing more about science may not translate to public support for science research.
10 Aug 2016
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I look deep into the history of 1860s London to see how early anthropologists reacted to Darwin.
09 Aug 2016
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An open letter from biologists calls for a new worldwide consensus.
09 Aug 2016
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A story from Frontiers in Neuroscience expresses some typical editor-referee pressure
08 Aug 2016
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A North Carolina high school creates an open access resource of images.
08 Aug 2016
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A view of the museum from a distance within the large Sangiran Dome valley.
07 Aug 2016
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Cameron Neylon considers the problems of funding and governance for open scholarly initiatives
06 Aug 2016
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By centering so much of its research investment in a single multi-billion euro instrument, are physicists missing the boat?
06 Aug 2016
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One of the characteristic fossils of the Miocene on the Great Plains.
06 Aug 2016
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The humanlike mandible from Swartkrans was the type specimen of Telanthropus capensis.
05 Aug 2016
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A science writer gives a big-picture look at the way ancient DNA is contributing to prehistory.
05 Aug 2016
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An examination of landscapes around the Yellow River brings an ancient event to light.
05 Aug 2016
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Cupules for umbilical cord deposits mark ancient births.
04 Aug 2016
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'[T]heir main goal is to prove that they are not naive'.
03 Aug 2016
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A set of human figures from sometime after A.D. 1250.
03 Aug 2016
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Investigating an epidemic of spoiled sausages in the 1820s.
03 Aug 2016
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A commentary by Ajit Varki suggests that modern human origins may have been unique in biogeography, and I point to other similar examples of what is probably a regular phenomenon.
02 Aug 2016
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Mammoths on Saint Paul Island lasted long after continental extinctions, but succumbed to a shortage of fresh water.
01 Aug 2016
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Well, at least it's not Neandertal defamation.
01 Aug 2016
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Looking beyond single-gene selection toward the new evidence of selection on continuous traits.
01 Aug 2016
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'Here was a near-man that failed of his destiny'.
24 Jul 2016
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A New Scientist piece focusing on a recent analysis of people in the Health and Retirement Study.
21 Jul 2016
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A fascinating historical case of quack medicine gives rise to a new film.
20 Jul 2016
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A new approach relies on the effects of vitamin D for dentin production.
20 Jul 2016
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A fascinating historical case of quack medicine gives rise to a new film.
20 Jul 2016
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Science has become more complex over time, posing challenges in putting together important research that combines techniques and results from narrow specialties.
19 Jul 2016
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Annalee Newitz provides a neat review of recent work in Cambodia understanding the process of urbanization in and around the famous site.
19 Jul 2016
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A news story looks at the behavior in social groups associated with the death of individuals
19 Jul 2016
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Will they take the challenge to create a new reviewing culture?
14 Jul 2016
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Using bioarchaeology to look at the prehistory of violence.
14 Jul 2016
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After the Leakeys' success finding ancient fossils in East Africa, paleontologists 'came like locusts'.
13 Jul 2016
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Was the Taung child 'too recent to be a possible human ancestor'?.
13 Jul 2016
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A New York Times piece explores the ways that predictive technologies go wrong.
26 Jun 2016
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The Pacific Standard interviews anthropologist Barbara King on the topic of gorilla behavior.
17 Jun 2016
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American Scientist publishes a description of the ongoing research on the Dinaledi Chamber hominin collection.
17 Jun 2016
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The Journal of Human Evolution publishes an exchange on the context of the Dinaledi Chamber fossil material.
16 Jun 2016
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An excavation recovers a small partial jaw and dental remains of an early Middle Pleistocene population on the island of Homo floresiensis
08 Jun 2016
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A report of a new cave art discovery 300 meters underground helps remind us how much remains undiscovered.
28 May 2016
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Deep within a French cave, Neandertals were stacking stalagmites into a series of round structures around 177,000 years ago.
26 May 2016
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A paper by Alik Huseynov and colleagues presents a novel hypothesis for the growth and developmental trajectory of the human pelvis, which appeals to my inner life history theoretician.
26 Apr 2016
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Examination of ancient mitochondrial DNA from paleontological species of mammoths in North America shows that the mtDNA phylogeny reflects substantial mixing among Siberian, North American and Columbian mammoth populations.
25 Apr 2016
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A recent Discover article reviews discoveries at the early Georgian site.
25 Apr 2016
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Jonathan Tennant and colleagues review the reasons why open access publishing is taking more and more of the scientific literature.
24 Apr 2016
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William Whewell introduced the practice of peer review to the Royal Society but the first paper subjected to the process led to a fight.
23 Apr 2016
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The March 2016 cover story available online, including Malapa, Rising Star, and others.
23 Apr 2016
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Foxes on the Channel Islands are nearly as genetically similar as identical twins.
22 Apr 2016
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A recognition for 8 years of discoveries changing paleoanthropology.
22 Apr 2016
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Surface scans of the fossil hominins from Malapa now available for free download, printing.
21 Apr 2016
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A study of mtDNA from ancient bear remains shows that the relationships among the giant bears is not what it seemed from their morphology.
20 Apr 2016
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Our team presented a review of ongoing work on the description and analysis of the Dinaledi Chamber hominin collection at last week's AAPA meeting.
19 Apr 2016
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Probing Alpine passes for traces of a Classical baggage train.
07 Apr 2016
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A revision of the stratigraphy of Liang Bua cave shows that the fossil remains of Homo floresiensis are all earlier than 60,000 years.
30 Mar 2016
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A news story looks at the flux in Mesozoic genera.
27 Mar 2016
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A long-term behavioral study of prairie dogs finds a homicidal secret.
26 Mar 2016
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A new study of variation in bipeds within other mammalian orders finds that the form of the cranial base does not reliably indicate locomotor strategy.
25 Mar 2016
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The rapid spread of the virus seems to be unstoppable.
23 Mar 2016
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The discovery of a parent species, once thought extinct, helps identify some of the mechanisms of domestication in this South American native.
23 Mar 2016
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Best poster advice nobody thinks of: No abstract necessary.
22 Mar 2016
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