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  • Scientist challenges 'out of Africa' theory with new origin for modern humans

    12/31/2024 2:52:41 AM PST · by Adder · 32 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12-30-2024 | Matthew Phelan
    An evolutionary biologist has challenged the long-held theory that suggests the first humans emerged from African. Dr Huan Shi, from China, proposed evolution began in East Asia where fossils predating the Africa timeline have been found. Evidence of genetic diversity is at the heart of his 'out of East Asia' theory, based on a concept called 'maximum genetic diversity' (MGD) that states complex species are more likely to have less genetic diversity.
  • Rewriting Evolution: Study Shows Neanderthals and Humans Were Not the Same Species

    12/17/2024 5:58:14 AM PST · by Red Badger · 56 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | December 13, 2024 | Natural History Museum, London
    A replica of an approximately 50,000-year-old Neanderthal cranium from La Ferrassie, France, compared to a recent Homo Sapiens cranium. Credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum A study suggests that by the time H. sapiens expanded, the differentiation between the two species had progressed to the extent that they were distinct and recognizable as separate species. A recent study conducted by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven has strengthened the argument that Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) should be classified as distinct species to more accurately trace our evolutionary history. Different...
  • Ice Age Men Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes, New Study Says

    10/24/2024 3:00:07 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | October 25, 2024 | Abdul Moeed
    Researchers have studied the ancient skeleton of a baby boy found in southern Italy, revealing a glimpse into life in the Ice Age, 17,000 years ago. The infant, which lived during the Ice Age, likely had brown skin, curly dark hair, and blue eyes. His remains were first discovered in 1998 in the Grotta delle Mura cave, located in Monopoli, Puglia, Italy. A recent report published in Nature Communications shared these findings. Archaeologist Mauro Calattini, who worked on the study, found the baby’s bones carefully covered with stones. There were no items buried with the child, and it was the...
  • Fossil Hotspot Bias: Are We Missing the Full Story of Human Evolution?

    09/02/2024 6:29:47 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 33 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | August 24, 2024 | George Washington University
    New research reveals that discrepancies between the locations where fossils are found and the areas where early humans are thought to have resided could affect our comprehension of human evolutionary history.A significant portion of the early human fossil record comes from a few key locations in Africa, where ideal geological conditions have preserved a wealth of fossils that scientists use to piece together the story of human evolution. One notable area is the eastern branch of the East African Rift System, which includes important fossil sites like Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania.Yet, the eastern branch of the rift system only accounts...
  • 4,000-year-old rock art in Venezuela may be from a 'previously unknown' culture

    08/08/2024 11:11:24 PM PDT · by blueplum · 33 replies
    Live Science ^ | 02 July 2024 | Owen Jarus
    An archeological team in Venezuela has discovered 20 rock art sites that date back thousands of years in Canaima National Park, in the southeastern part of the country. While archaeologists have found similar rock art designs elsewhere in South America, the newfound art "represents a new culture previously unknown," José Miguel Pérez-Gómez, an archaeologist and researcher at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas who is leading the team, told Live Science in an email. Some of these designs, which researchers call "pictograms," were drawn in red and depict geometric motifs such as lines of dots, rows of X's, star-shaped patterns and...
  • DENTIST MAKES AN UNSETTLING DISCOVERY IN THE FLOOR OF HIS PARENTS’ NEWLY RENOVATED HOME

    04/25/2024 8:59:50 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    The Debrief ^ | APRIL 23, 2024 | Micah Hanks
    Something about one of the floor tiles in his parents’ newly renovated European home seemed extremely strange. That’s because the man who made the discovery, a dentist, recognized the bizarre, out-of-place object he had just found. The unusual discovery was made when Reddit user Kidipadeli75 noticed a floor tile located in a portion of the home leading out onto a patio area that seemed to have something very strange embedded in it. Naturally, he did what anyone would do in our modern era of internet sleuthing: he posted an image of the oddity online. The curious object in the photo...
  • 15 Fascinating Facts About The Ainu - Japan’s Indigenous People

    06/01/2024 2:44:43 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 18 replies
    🎥 Who are the indigenous Ainu people of Japan, where did they come from, what do they look like, and where do they stand in the world today? 🇯🇵 Welcome to our deep dive into the fascinating world of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan. In this video, we explore the unique aspects of Ainu culture, from their ancient history to their contemporary resurgence… 00:26 - 🌿 Indigenous Heritage: Explore the history of the Ainu, the original inhabitants of Hokkaido, and their presence in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. 01:54 - 📜 Unique Language: Discover the endangered Ainu...
  • Wild orangutan seen using medicinal plant to treat wound, scientists say

    05/02/2024 1:00:31 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | May 2, 2024 | Staff
    * An adult male named Rakus chewed a plant used by people in Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation, then applied it to an injury on his right cheek * Photographs show the animal’s wound closed within a month without any problems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan, is seen two months after he started treating himself with a medicinal plant at a protected rainforest area in Indonesia. Photo:Safruddin/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour via Reuters AsiaSoutheast Asia Wild orangutan seen using medicinal plant to treat wound, scientists say An adult male named Rakus chewed a plant used by people...
  • Academic Conferences Are a Scam. If progressive virtue-signaling has replaced professional debate, what, exactly, are we paying for?

    11/17/2023 4:24:44 AM PST · by karpov · 9 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 15, 2023 | Elizabeth Weiss
    On September 25, 2023, I received an email notifying me that a previously accepted abstract, and the panel in which it was to be presented, were now being cancelled. The email came from the presidents of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA). The reason given for the cancellation, which made news around the world and was even covered in the New York Times, was that talks discussing the importance of binary biological sex as a research variable in anthropology would supposedly “cause harm to members represented by the Trans and LGBTQI of the anthropological community...
  • Conference cancels panel on biological sex in human skeletons over transphobia fears: Commits a 'cardinal sin'

    09/29/2023 10:40:53 PM PDT · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 28 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/30/23 | Hannah Grossman
    Anthropologists from the largest associations of anthropologists in the world canceled an event discussing the importance of biological sex in the context of studying the human skeleton while citing "transphobia" as the reason for the panel being cut. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) were skewered for walking back their approval for a panel event at its 2023 conference discussing biological sex. The AAA and CASCA said that it was now tightening its review process to ensure such an event wouldn't recur in the future. The event in question discussed "Sex identification whether an individual...
  • Science: Anthropological Association cancels panel on why biological sex matters

    09/27/2023 8:06:08 PM PDT · by NetAddicted · 5 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 9/26/2023 | Brett T
    This spring, athlete and women's rights advocate Riley Gaines spoke at the University of Pittsburgh. When Gaines asked an anthropology professor, the “expert” in the room, if you could dig up a skeleton and tell if the person had been male or female from the bone structure, Professor Gabby Yearwood said no, of course not. Yearwood, whose research focuses on "the social constructions of race and racism, masculinity, gender, sex, Black Feminist and Black Queer theory, anthropology of sport and Black Diaspora," was laughed at by the rest of the audience. Colin Wright is now reporting that the American Anthropological...
  • Lucy the ancient human walked fully upright, and she was ripped

    06/15/2023 10:21:39 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 34 replies
    New Atlas ^ | June 14, 2023 | Bronwyn Thompson
    Recreating the musculature of the leg and pelvis, the imagery supports the supposition that this part-time tree-dwelling hominin walked completely erect, like humans, but more than three million years earlier.Starting with human MRI and CT scans to map muscle pathways, Wiseman next focused on virtual reconstructions of Lucy's bones and joints, and then married up cues from muscle "scarring" on the bones.The resulting model shows how Lucy was capable of upright, erect locomotion but also possessed powerful leg muscles that facilitated her species' half-land, half-arboreal lifestyle. Researchers believe the extra muscle power in the legs – 74% of the total...
  • A mysterious human species may have been the first to bury their dead

    06/06/2023 7:01:35 PM PDT · by Candor7 · 25 replies
    National Geographic ^ | June 5, 2023 | Kristin Romey
    If the claims are true, the behavior by Homo naledi—a baffling, small-brained member of the human family tree—would pre-date the earliest known burials by at least 100,000 years. An extinct human species that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago may have deliberately buried its dead and carved meaningful symbols deep in a South African cave—advanced behaviors generally deemed unique to Neanderthals and modern Homo sapiens. If confirmed, the burials would be the earliest yet known by at least 100,000 years. The claims, made today in two research papers uploaded to the preprint server bioRxiv, were also announced by paleoanthropologist...
  • Watch: Anthropology Prof Angered After Being Mocked For Denying Ability To Tell Gender From Human Bones Despite the Widely Accepted Ability To Do So in His Field.

    04/01/2023 9:35:16 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 55 replies
    There is an interesting controversy that has erupted at the University of Pittsburgh after Dr. Gabby Yearwood, who teaches in both the anthropology and law schools, was asked by swimmer Riley Gaines if he could tell the gender of persons from skeletal remains. He denied that that was possible despite the widely accepted ability to do so in his field. The answer may reflect the ongoing push in anthropology, discussed in an earlier blog column, to put an end to gender identifications. Some insist that anthropologists need to know how an ancient human may have chosen to identify themselves.Yearwood reportedly...
  • Portrait of an 8-year-old Neanderthal boy who lived more than 30,000 years ago is REVEALED by scientists who reconstructed his face using a skull found in 1938

    01/19/2023 12:45:03 AM PST · by blueplum · 47 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 18 Jan 2023 | By STACY LIBERATORE
    The face of an eight-year-old Neanderthal boy who died more than 30,000 years ago has been reconstructed by scientists who used a skull initially found in the Teshik-Tash cave in Uzbekistan in 1938. The portrait is the first three-dimensional restoration of a Neanderthal skull fossil, which reveals the young boy had a small, turned-up nose that sunk into his face. The fossil is the first Neanderthal fossil discovered in Asia and the only complete Asian Neanderthal skull fossil preserved so far....
  • South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies

    11/24/2022 2:50:05 AM PST · by blueplum · 45 replies
    AP ^ | 24 Nov 2022 | HYUNG-JIN KIM
    ...There are many like Yoo in South Korea who have chosen either not to have children or not to marry. Other advanced countries have similar trends, but South Korea’s demographic crisis is much worse. South Korea’s statistics agency announced in September that the total fertility rate — the average number of babies born to each woman in their reproductive years — was 0.81 last year. That’s the world’s lowest for the third consecutive year.... ...Lee Sung-jai, a 75-year-old Seoul resident, said...“These days, I see some (unmarried) young women walking with dogs in strollers and saying they are their moms. Did...
  • Soldier killed in WWII to be buried in home state of WVa

    11/23/2022 7:47:24 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | November 23, 2022
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia soldier killed during World War II has been accounted for, the military said. Army Cpl. Joseph H. Gunnoe, 21, of Charleston, was reported missing in action in November 1944 in Germany. He was declared killed in action after the war, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Tuesday. Gunnoe was assigned to Company G, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His unit captured the town of Vossenack, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, on Nov. 2 but was forced to withdraw four days later. Scientists used DNA, anthropological evidence and circumstantial evidence to identify the...
  • Scientists unearth 70,000 year old flatbread unlocking secrets to historical diets

    11/22/2022 11:27:11 PM PST · by blueplum · 41 replies
    The Express UK ^ | 23 Nov 2022 | VICTORIA CHESSUM
    Scientists believe they have made a fascinating discovery which reveals some hidden detail about the diet of Neanderthals around 70,000 years ago. They have unearthed remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest flatbread made by Neanderthals in the foothills of Iraq. The charred remnants were recovered from the Shanidar Cave site - a Neanderthal dwelling around 500 miles north of Baghdad. The archaeologists said the findings, published in the journal Antiquity, show for the first time that bread was part of the diet among these hominid species....
  • CLOWNWORLDGender Activists Say Archaeologists Should Be Stopped From Identifying Ancient Human Remains as Male or Female

    07/25/2022 6:46:12 PM PDT · by MNDude · 44 replies
    activists within the field of archaeology are pushing for anthropologists to be prevented from identifying human remains as male or female because it is not known how ancients would have self-identified. No, this isn’t the Babylon Bee. Criminal forensic psychologists, archaeologists and anthropologists have long had the skills to identify whether a body is male or female based on a number of traits, including the size and shape of bones. However, far-left activists are now insisting that this is transphobic because experts don’t know if ancient people identified as a specific gender. “You might know the argument that the archaeologists...
  • LGBT Activists Push to Bar Anthropologists from Identifying Human Remains as ‘Male’ or ‘Female’

    07/19/2022 10:45:46 AM PDT · by Paul46360 · 23 replies
    LGBT activists are pushing to bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as “male” or “female,” arguing that scientists cannot know how an ancient individuals identified themselves. Canadian Master’s degree candidate Emma Palladino took to Twitter earlier this month to point out that transgender individuals “can’t escape” their sex, not because it’s physically impossible to change one’s sex, but because archaeologists who find their bones one day “will assign you the same gender as you had at birth.”