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And there we have a bluestone, quite clearly floating on top of it...
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
And there we have a bluestone, quite clearly floating on top of it...
It’s even a little quaint
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
It’s even a little quaint
We’re living through a grease-fat-marrow paleodietary research renaissance.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We’re living through a grease-fat-marrow paleodietary research renaissance.
The either/or-ness in this summary to me is off the mark from the paper.
There’s no way a trained archaeologist would be that deterministic about fat.
There’s no way a trained archaeologist would be that deterministic about fat.
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The either/or-ness in this summary to me is off the mark from the paper.
There’s no way a trained archaeologist would be that deterministic about fat.
There’s no way a trained archaeologist would be that deterministic about fat.
Also: AI systems that are being tasked with economic planning, future govt, human well-being etc, are being trained on “history” - basically just the NY Times archives
October 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Also: AI systems that are being tasked with economic planning, future govt, human well-being etc, are being trained on “history” - basically just the NY Times archives
The square brow and nose, deep-pitted eye sockets to me deserve an ex-arc comparison with woodcarving using flint chisels and a global comparison of wood-carved adult male head sculptures.
It’s worth interrogating what in the carvings is style and what is a consequence of tools/skill transfer.
It’s worth interrogating what in the carvings is style and what is a consequence of tools/skill transfer.
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The square brow and nose, deep-pitted eye sockets to me deserve an ex-arc comparison with woodcarving using flint chisels and a global comparison of wood-carved adult male head sculptures.
It’s worth interrogating what in the carvings is style and what is a consequence of tools/skill transfer.
It’s worth interrogating what in the carvings is style and what is a consequence of tools/skill transfer.
Good scholarship shows some of the archaic-diaspora languages used human body as the root framework. Vestiges of that would likely have influence into early attempts to explain anatomy, etc.
This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body
An endangered language family suggests that early humans used their bodies as a model for reality
www.scientificamerican.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Good scholarship shows some of the archaic-diaspora languages used human body as the root framework. Vestiges of that would likely have influence into early attempts to explain anatomy, etc.
The first thing I see is experienced wood-carving skills on soft limestone.
We don’t yet see familiarity with stonecarving.
Similar to how newspapers in the early days of digital publishing would run their articles at 12:00am as a new “edition.” And editors would push their writers on word length.
We don’t yet see familiarity with stonecarving.
Similar to how newspapers in the early days of digital publishing would run their articles at 12:00am as a new “edition.” And editors would push their writers on word length.
October 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The first thing I see is experienced wood-carving skills on soft limestone.
We don’t yet see familiarity with stonecarving.
Similar to how newspapers in the early days of digital publishing would run their articles at 12:00am as a new “edition.” And editors would push their writers on word length.
We don’t yet see familiarity with stonecarving.
Similar to how newspapers in the early days of digital publishing would run their articles at 12:00am as a new “edition.” And editors would push their writers on word length.
Or maybe: how the impossibility of living on Mars will be the prompt that gets us to realize it's more realistic to design intelligent forms that can easily live on Mars and elsewhere in space using advances in fields of developmental biology/diverse intelligence? Are you following Michael Levin?
October 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Or maybe: how the impossibility of living on Mars will be the prompt that gets us to realize it's more realistic to design intelligent forms that can easily live on Mars and elsewhere in space using advances in fields of developmental biology/diverse intelligence? Are you following Michael Levin?
What about the new preprint on Bioarchiv, I think saying Bootstrap parsimony points to orig. holotype clusters with Floresiensis, and the other 4 cluster with another species, but that they are sister taxa with Erectus/Erg? Have you weighed in it? This to me = fascinating as Yunxian.
Where do the Dmanisi hominins fit on the human evolutionary tree?
Archeological excavations at the site of Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia have yielded a rich assemblage of hominin fossil remains, as well as lithic artefacts and bones of fossil fauna. The site is...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What about the new preprint on Bioarchiv, I think saying Bootstrap parsimony points to orig. holotype clusters with Floresiensis, and the other 4 cluster with another species, but that they are sister taxa with Erectus/Erg? Have you weighed in it? This to me = fascinating as Yunxian.
My interpretation is that these are the creatures who guard the underworld. Snakes protect the travelers from the scorpions etc
October 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My interpretation is that these are the creatures who guard the underworld. Snakes protect the travelers from the scorpions etc
That’s no toy! 😅
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
That’s no toy! 😅
Is it possible that the rate of phylogenetic change for Bayesian tip could speed up with more migration, more intense climactic-enviro flux; and more contact/admix? Antecessor-Longi are pretty close on Feng’s tree. Lot of traveling in short time. ESR says 600k-1m+
September 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Is it possible that the rate of phylogenetic change for Bayesian tip could speed up with more migration, more intense climactic-enviro flux; and more contact/admix? Antecessor-Longi are pretty close on Feng’s tree. Lot of traveling in short time. ESR says 600k-1m+