For those of you keeping up with this blog, I recently wrote about the discovery of fire being controlled by hominins 1 million years ago, ~700,000 years earlier than previously thought. For those of you not keeping up (or simply fancy a refresher), here is a link. However, it turns out even this latest figure … Continue reading »
There is legislature worming its way through Tennessee which has got the goat of many of the pro-evolution crowd as it opens the door for the promotion of creationism in public schools. On the other side we have a “pro” evolution bill in Kentucky (and other places) that requires more time to be spent discussing … Continue reading »
<- Part 1 came before As many of you are likely aware by this point, some interesting remains have recently been discovered in China. These have been purported to contain a novel mixture of modern, ancient and never seen before traits, around which two major hypotheses have been discovered. These are examples of an archaic … Continue reading »
When an evolutionary gaze was first cast upon humanity it was believed that we had evolved in Asia due to our many similarities with orang-utans. As such most early attempts to uncover our early ancestors focused on that region. It wasn’t until the 1960s that the focused shifted to Africa and we made real headway … Continue reading »
There’s this new fad going around called the “palaeolithic diet” (or at least, that’s what it should be called. I’ll have none of this American “paleolithic” thank you very much). It is essentially people trying to eat what our ancestors ate, the logic beign that it is what we’ve evolved to deal with and will … Continue reading »
2009: Science and the media collide in the most horrific way imaginable; with Darwinius masillae, a beautifully preserved prehistoric primate being trumped up as the answer to human origins and generally claimed to be the best thing since sliced bread. It is not and the whole affair is generally embarassing for all involved. 2011: Science … Continue reading »
