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Tag Archives: Primatology and Human Evolution
Paleoneurology- Jebel IrhoudNew fossils and age for Jebel Irhoud. Jean-Jacques Hublin and colleagues have published new specimens, new analyses, and a new chronology pointing at 300 ka. All their results robustly confirm what we already knew on these populations: modern face, primitive braincase. Two major advances of these new findings are i) the morphology of Irhoud 10 […]
- Jebel Irhoud
- Anthropology
- Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside HumansA couple weeks ago, I introduced that H. naledi may be much younger than we thought it was. Razib’s recent post points out three new …Continue reading →
- Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside Humans
- Brain evolution
- The Sensitive Face of a Big Predatory Dinosaurhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-sensitive-face-of-a-big-predatory-dinosaur/
- The Sensitive Face of a Big Predatory Dinosaur
- Bones and skulls
- The Breton Murders: Bone Identification and Taphonomy in 21st-Century Spain8th of October 2011: According to their father José, whom had recently separated from their mother Ruth Ortiz, two-year-old José and… Read more The Breton Murders: Bone Identification and Taphonomy in 21st-Century Spain
- The Breton Murders: Bone Identification and Taphonomy in 21st-Century Spain
- Osteons
- Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 44)Today's installment of "Who needs an osteologist?" comes courtesy bioarchaeologist Megan Perry, who was watching a Science Channel clip on the skeletons found in the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan.Here's the clip: (if the embedded YouTube video doesn't work for you, this one might)So, what did you notice? I rolled my […]
- Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 44)
- Neurophilosophy
- Researchers develop non-invasive deep brain stimulation methodResearchers at MIT have developed a new method of electrically stimulating deep brain tissues without opening the skullSince 1997, more than 100,000 Parkinson’s Disease patients have been treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical technique that involves the implantation of ultra-thin wire electrodes. The implanted device, sometimes referred to as […]
- Researchers develop non-invasive deep brain stimulation method
- Primatología
- Presentación Trabajos Final de Máster Curso 2015-17Los próximos días 6-7-8 de Junio de 2017 tendrán lugar la presentación de los proyectos de investigación correspondientes a las defensas de los Trabajos de Final de Máster correspondientes al curso académico 2015-17 del Máster en Primatología de la Universitat de Girona – Fundació Mona. Las sesiones están abiertas al público y se celebrarán en… […]
- Presentación Trabajos Final de Máster Curso 2015-17
- Digital disease
- On ethics, fair use and 3D printingDigitised Diseases is an online digital resource of pathological type specimens made up of more than 1600 3D models of …Continue reading →
- On ethics, fair use and 3D printing
