Human evolution

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• November 13, 1874 (a Friday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 126
  On this date, the second edition of Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin was published. It was generally the edition most commonly reprinted after Darwin’s death and up to the present. In the introduction to the first edition, Darwin gave the purpose of his treatise:The sole object ...
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• FOXP2 in Nature

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 474
  Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2 : ...It has been proposed that the amino acid composition in the human variant of FOXP2 has undergone accelerated evolution, and this two-amino-acid change occurred around the time of language emergence in humans...However, this remains ...
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• Nova: Becoming Human Part II will air on most PBS stations tonight

  
  Greg Laden's Blog — Authority: 640
  I watched a pre-release copy of tonights show, the second of three episodes, last week, and I have some comments to make about it. The short version: Do watch it! Then report back here and tell us what you thought. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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• What Head (and Other) Lice Tell Us About Evolution

  
  Discoblog — Authority: 564
  The second episode of NOVA’s big evolution special “ Becoming Human ” premieres tomorrow night at 8 PM ET/PT on PBS.  Tuesday night’s show focuses on Homo erectus , the ancestor who became “basically us” almost 2 million years ago, developing the first human societies. Much of what we know about Homo ...
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• David Chalmers and the Singularity that will probably not come

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like humans, and yet have no conscious thought (I explained clearly ...
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• The Real Neanderthal Man

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 130
  Today on Discovery Enterprise will take a journey through time and visit Europe during the last ice age and encounter a remarkable group of people. Some forty two thousand years ago, the only living humans in Europe made clothes, educated their young, made tools. But they were not us. Now twenty first century science ...
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• Multi-Regional Theory Confirmed ?

  
  21st Century British Nationalism — Authority: 527
  Image - Chinese Jaw Bone http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18093-chinese-challenge-to-out-of-africa-theory.html Chinese challenge to out of Africa theory * 00:01 03 November 2009 by Phil McKenna * For similar stories, visit the Human Evolution Topic Guide The discovery of an early human fossil in ...
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• Robin McKie Of The Observer Reviews 3 Books On Human Evolution

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 554
  Ciarán Brewster, a.k.a. adhominin , just tweeted about three book reviews. The reviews, written by Robin McKie of The Observer , cover recent books on cooking and human evolution which were written by some pretty big names in anthropology: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham ...
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• “I’d rather have evolved from apes than made by NIGGERS!”

  
  digitalmonkeys — Authority: 110
  Yakub: The Father of Mankind Whites have calcified Pineal Glands in their brains, due to being melanin-deficient. Melanin is a Hormone that humans (non-Whites) possess. The very word Human comes from two words: Hue = Colored + Man = Person = Colored Person = Human. Whites did not originate out of the “cold” ...
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• Snail fossils suggest eastern Canary Islands were wetter 50,000 years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, October 28 (ANI): In a new research, fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands have shown that the Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa were wetter 50,000 years ago, and since then, have become progressively drier.The research was done by ...
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• Discovering Ardipithecus

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 130
  We Humans, in every age and across all cultures have had one major question - Where did we come from? It is perhaps the most profound question humans could possibly ask and has been the central driving force in the development and evolution of many of the world’s major religions and all the most important braches of ...
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• Evolution Hall Planned for Smithsonian

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 129
  Someone passed on to me a clipping from a newspaper (yes, a real one made out of actual paper and ink) that mentions the planned opening of a hall in the National Museum of Natural History dedicated to human evolution.: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History plans to open a hall next year dedicated ...
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• What Could People Evolve in to?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 559
  So, in the thousands of years to come, what could happen to our race? I generally would believe that (and this may sound stupid) people could become amphibious creatures, and maybe even revert to our primal instincts. Because of the water levels rising, and in a few hundred years the polar ice caps will be melted and ...
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• Scandal: Modern man had sex with Neanderthals

  
  Earthen Chivalry — Authority: 103
  Modern man and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to leading geneticist Professor Svante Paabo.Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, made the claim at a conference in the Cold Springs Laboratory in New ...
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• Human Evolution: Are Humans Still Evolving?

  
  Stix Blog ver 4.0 — Authority: 156
  via Are We Lumberjacks? Short answer: no. Long answer: Noooooooooo! Chip in for my golf addiction Share and Enjoy: Related posts: Validation Chip Bok Chip Bok
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• Is modern man a wimp?

  
  Earthen Chivalry — Authority: 103
  Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 metres record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 metres during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to ...
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• Ancient Astronauts

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 559
    Cover of Chariots of the Gods Believers of ancient astronaut theory like Erich Von Daniken, author of the popular book, “Chariots of the Gods”, and Zecharia Sitchin, author of many books on the subject, both maintain that historical gaps and unexplained archaeological records can’t dismiss the fact ...
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• new book – ‘The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind’

  
  my mind on books — Authority: 116
  The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind by John S. Allen (Harvard University Press, 2009)(link for UK)Product description from the publisher: Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces ...
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• The Dangerous Link Between Science and Hype

  
  Tangled Up in Blue Guy — Authority: 129
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife Brian’s Article in the Times of London Ida is undoubtedly a spectacular fossil. A nearly complete fossil primate, with a body outline and stomach contents, she is the sort of discovery palaeontologists dream about. It may come as a surprise, then, that Ida does not ...
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• The Liger and the Humanzee

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Check out the Liger . This comes from an interesting documentary that is also worth seeing: Source. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but Oliver was no humanzee. I also need to tell you that this film includes some adult content. I’m not going to post the Stalin’s Ape Men documentary, because ...
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