4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (417+ words) This republished article first appeared in Science and Culture Today The first thing that comes to mind in the context of intellectual capabilities is brain size. The paper notes that "brain volume for most of the'Homo erectus'fossils is above 800 cm3, varying…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (358+ words) Back in the 1980s, the idea of calling the geological period from 1950 onward by a new name began to take root. In 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen and diatom researcher Eugene F. Stoermer popularized the name "Anthropocene" and their turn-of-the-millennium timing was certainly…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (699+ words) In an interesting short essay at The Conversation last month, University of Durham Paul Pettitt observed, Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has been much objection to the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (487+ words) There's been a flurry of news recently from human paleontology. It seems to me that it sheds far more light on our preoccupations than on our origins. Four examples: " "Did humans learn to walk in trees?" (ScienceDaily, July 29, 2025): Humans are…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (765+ words) On October 1, 2025, iconic chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall died of natural causes in Los Angeles, where she had gone to help with the rebuilding after devastating fires. Early in her career, she was an associate of Louis Leakey (1903-1972) and Mary Leakey…...