Studies of fossil teeth reveal another Pleistocene ape species from Southeast Asia
via Phys.org, 09 April 2019: Another ancient hominid species was discovered in Indonesia earlier this month, described in another paper ...
Tag: human evolution
Related to human and hominid evolution in Southeast Asia.
See also: Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo sapiens
The world is introduced to Homo luzonensis – a news roundup
Big archaeology news from last week that has made news around the world as the announcement of a new identified ...
Asia Pacific Conference on Human Evolution
Happening next year from 25-27 June 2019 in Brisbane, Australia.
How did the first humans migrate into Australia?
via various sources including ANU Media, the Guardian and the Journal of Human Evolution: A new paper in the Journal ...
[Paper] The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis
New Open Access paper in the Journal of Human Evolution examines the distribution stone artefacts and faunal remains of Liang ...
Asia Pacific Conference on Human Evolution
Readers may be interested in this conference happening in Brisbane next June. No call for papers yet, but you can ...
Arguing against Malays’ ‘Sundaland origins’
via the Malay Mail, 12 August 2018: An editorial from The Malay Mail weighing in on the ludicrous and racist ...
Rebutting the myth that Malays have the second oldest genes in the world
Last week, a historian speaking at the ominously named “The Origins of the Malay” forum "quoted" the work of the ...
[Paper] Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia
A new paper in Science examining the genomes of modern pygmies in the island of Flores found similarities with Neanderthal ...
Tracing the tangled tracks of humankind’s evolutionary journey
via The Guardian, 12 Feb 2018: A good simple primer on what we currently know about human evolution. The path ...
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