![Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference: Ancient Mal'ta DNA, Ice-Free Corridor, Back Migrations to the Old World, Craniofacial Diversity in the New World and Pre-Clovis](http://anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Anthropogenesis-IceFreeCorridor-150x150.jpg)
Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference: Ancient Mal’ta DNA, Ice-Free Corridor, Back Migrations to the Old World, Craniofacial Diversity in the New World and Pre-Clovis
My complete paper delivered yesterday at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference in Santa Fe is now available here. I will keep updating this post as more information comes in. I’m keeping the news of Eske Willerslev’s ancient DNA analysis of Mal’ta…
![Ancient Molecular and Morphometric Variation from Chile: The Death of the Dual-Entry Model?](http://anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Anthropogenesis-ChileSkulls-150x150.jpg)
Ancient Molecular and Morphometric Variation from Chile: The Death of the Dual-Entry Model?
Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena Vol. 43, No 2, 2011, pp. 283-292 Morphometric and mtDNA Analyses of Archaic Skeletal Remains from Southwestern South America Germán Manríquez, Mauricio Moraga, Calogero Santoro, Eugenio Aspillaga, Bernardo T. Arriaza, and Francisco Rothhammer. For decades…
A Seismic Shift in Human Origins Research, or a Downward Slide?
A new research paper is out which has created a lot of media buzz. “Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers, “ by Joseph Lachance et al. reports “archaic admixture” in three African hunter-gathering populations…
Out-of-Africa in the Mid-Pleistocene: A New Interdisciplinary Paradigm or a New Myth?
In the comments section on this blog, Dienekes raises the issue of interdisciplinary support for the out-of-America theory. Since I’m a big proponent of interdisciplinarity, the seeming convergence of genetics, archeology and paleobiology on the origin of modern humans in…
![Early Aurignacian Dentition and Why Paleontology Is a Moving Target](http://anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Anthropogenesis-QuinaAvalMandibles-150x150.jpg)
Early Aurignacian Dentition and Why Paleontology Is a Moving Target
Journal of Human Evolution (In Press, Corrected Proof) The Early Aurignacian human remains from La Quina-Aval (France) Christine Verna, Véronique Dujardin, and Erik Trinkaus. There is a dearth of diagnostic human remains securely associated with the Early Aurignacian of western…
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