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The evolution of the human face
The face is an important aspect of our phenotype. So important that facial recognition is one of many innate reflexive cognitive competencies. By this, I mean that you can recognize a face in a gestalt...
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American Heads are Getting Larger
»On the coat tails of Matt Ridley’s statement that humans are no longer evolving, comes news presented at last month’s annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists that the...
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Our Ancient Relatives Born with Flexible Skulls
A new study of the skull of an early hominin child provides a better understanding of the evolutionary timeline for modern human skulls-and brains. The skulls of modern humans are highly flexible at...
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How scientists recreated Neanderthal man
A team of scientists has created what it believes is the first really accurate reconstruction of Neanderthal man, from a skeleton that was discovered in France over a century ago. In 1909, excavations...
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The new skull from Dmanisi
It smells like ashes. Holding it and examining it is really not like the other fossil crania I’ve studied. The other Dmanisi crania strike me as being very like some Neandertals in their preservation —...
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