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Great news Today the nobel prize committee decided to give the nobel price (medicine) to the famous researcher Svante Pääbo. Svante is swedish, but works in germany (Leipzig) for many years. He is a researcher in human evolution, found out the parts of our genom comes from the neandertaler (we mixed some years ago ) and identified the denisova-man. So, this nobel-prize is something like a half-medicine, half-palaeontology-prize. And Svante (we met some times on conferences many many years ago) is a great person. Congrats, Svante!
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A group of UK scientists reexamined a group of late stage Neanderthal teeth from the early 1900s with modern techniques such as CT scanning. They discovered a mix of new characteristics indicative of both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthal, more evidence supporting a gradual absorption of Neanderthals into emerging modern human populations. Article Link Published Paper Link (Not free access)
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Increased Environmental Variability Triggered Human Behavioral Change Over 300,000 Years Ago
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Tool kits stayed similar from 700,000 Years ago until this climatic shift 320,000 years ago and then our tools got more diverse and sophisticated. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-turbulent-era-human-behavior-years.html#lightbox -
Human fossils and human evolution are one of my favorite paleobiology topics to read, anyway... https://phys.org/news/2020-07-ancestral-commonalities-modern-human-body.html?fbclid=IwAR3xY_ryIR7f8q2yb_DdkgCu9D0qYzgPh6L-VGfv22d5y6Ew6wOKwtUVK88 Markus Bastir et al. Rib cage anatomy in Homo erectus suggests a recent evolutionary origin of modern human body shape, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1240-4
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No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption.
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No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption. The supereruption 74,000 years ago did not trigger major environmental disruption that caused human populations in East Africa to decline, say geoscientists. University of Arizona, February 6, 2018 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180206151850.htm https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/no-volcanic-winter-east-africa-ancient-toba-eruption The paper is: Chad L. Yost, Lily J. Jackson, Jeffery R. Stone, Andrew S. Cohen. Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ∼74 ka Toba supereruption. Journal of Human Evolution, 2018; 116: 75 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.005 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323019180_Subdecadal_phytolith_and_charcoal_records_from_Lake_Malawi_East_Africa_imply_minimal_effects_on_human_evolution_from_the_74_ka_Toba_supereruption https://www.geo.arizona.edu/sites/www.geo.arizona.edu/files/135 Yost et al 2018 Toba Malawi Jour Human Evol.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417302750?via%3Dihub Also, there is: Modern humans flourished through ancient supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago. University of Cape Town, March 12, 2018 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180312132956.htm https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43377960 The paper is: Eugene I. Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews, Curtis W. Marean. Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago. Nature, 2018; DOI: 10.1038/nature25967 https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/geo_fac_articles/145/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25967 Yours, Paul H.-
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Massive supernova could have made humans walk upright, study says. Researchers claim cosmic particles bombarded Earth’s surface at such high levels forests turned to savannah Phoebe Weston, The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/massive-supernova-explosion-star-humans-walk-upright-hominins-space-news-adrian-melott-a8932966.html Researchers wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk upright by University of Kansas https://phys.org/news/2019-05-ancient-supernovae-prompted-human-ancestors.html The paper is: Melott, Adrian L., and Brian C. Thomas. "From cosmic explosions to terrestrial fires?." arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01501 (2019). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.01501.pdf Adrian L. Melott and Brian C. Thomas, "From Cosmic Explosions to Terrestrial Fires?," The Journal of Geology 0, no. 0 (-Not available-): 000. https://doi.org/10.1086/703418 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/703418 Yours, Paul H.
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