Gordon's Notes

I'm a fairly average sleeper for my age, but this morning I gave up a bit before 4am. With the unexpected time I finished Yuval Harari&#...

Europeans used to have more Neanderthal DNA than we have now ... Ancient DNA from last Ice Age unveils distant ancestors underwent signifi...

Anthro prof  John Hawks , one of my favorite bloggers, is hosting a sure-to-be-good PBS series called First Peoples . You can stream the (u...

My 16yo is having his wisdom teeth removed tomorrow. Blame it on human domestication. The Economist explains the process . Domestication, w...

We're used to thinking that human population (and human misery) boomed when we switched to agriculture. Now it appears that a post-glaci...

The paleolithic is the time of the pre-historic hominid tool user. It begins 2.6 million years ago with Australopithecine-like hominid tool...

John Hawks and Dienekes have excellent posts on research that emphasizes the churn and chaos of the melding of the sentient apes into one ...

Brad DeLong, my favorite economist, has published the latest edition of his annual Econ 1 Berkeley: September 29 2010 Economic Growth Lectur...

Even fifteen years ago cognitive science courses taught that the human mind was frozen in the Paleolithic Pleistocene . Humans didn’t evolve...

Or 50 million Neandertal equivalents .... NEANDERTALS LIVE! | john (Neandertal) hawks weblog ... In genetic terms, we can ask, how many time...

When we think about science, most of us think of dramatic breakthroughs. We think Darwin and Wallace, Einstein and Bohr, Copernicus and Curi...

A NYT science writer suggests that dogs domesticated a notoriously viscious primate: Nicholas Wade's book "Before the Dawn" - ...

Early Voices: The Leap to Language NYT article on the 50K leap, the mutation that enabled fluent verbal communications.