Meet Lucy - she’s the start of so many wonderful things that happened today. So Many Wonderful Things Today - Stevie Wonder is Honored by the President, for his contributions. The Kenyans can now clearly prove that life did begin in the Oduvuai Gorge Indeed.. Hopefully this will end the argume...

We are a rather violent bunch. Our arrival on the historical scene was marked by mass murder on a truly gigantic scale. Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion William E. Banks1, Francesco d’Errico1,2, A. Townsend Peterson3, Masa Kageyama4, Adriana Sima4, Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi5...

This week the editor-mans went on the teevee and repeatedly stumbled over the 5-second pause. Filthy-mouth Kotakus need one, y'know. Hell, if I did X-Play, they'd tape delay me like the 1981 NBA Finals. Elsewhere in original reportage, the studios might be a-firing, but we're a-hiring — at least i...

A continued debate in anthropology concerns the evolutionary origin of ‘anatomically modern humans’ (Homo sapiens sapiens). Different models have been proposed to examine the related questions of (1) where and when anatomically modern humans first appeared and (2) the genetic and evoluti...

The speciation event that produced Homo sapiens sapiens could not have occurred contemporaneously in more than a very few individuals. It follows that those few s. sapiens would have possessed a very restricted sample of the progenitor species’ genetic diversity. However, the diversity observe...

One school of thought argues that Homo sapiens emerged with the abilities needed to be modern, and it simply took 70,000 years to hone the technological and social skills needed before they could successfully venture out and populate the rest of the world....