Egypt
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1153697.htm
DNA analysis presented at a genetics conference that gives a new twist on the out-of-Africa hypothesis of human origins. U.S. researcher Professor Alan Templeton doesn't support the so-called replacement theory in which African hominids caused the extinction of other Homo species. Instead, he believes that his analysis of the human genome showed that prehistoric gene-swapping created a single evolutionary lineage beginning in Africa and ending where we are today.
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- Investigations Into The Domestication Of The Dog
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- Call For Papers For Egypt In Its African Context
Call for Papers: "Egypt in its African Context", The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 3rd-4th October 2009 The African elements of the ancient Egyptian culture, and indeed its physical location in Africa, have frequently been ignored, and...
- Renfrew On Dna And Looting
Scotsman (Susan Mansfield) The link here to Egypt is a bit tenuous, but it is an interesting piece which does reference the Egyptian civilization so I have included it: FEW of us realise we carry around in our bodies the seeds of our most distant past....
- Book Review: Forgotten Africa
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/05_05_connah.htm This book is aimed at the "general reader and beginning student; advanced undergraduates and postgraduates may find the coverage a little too basic, and in terms of these readership criteria, Connah...
Egypt
New twist on out-of-Africa theory
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1153697.htm
DNA analysis presented at a genetics conference that gives a new twist on the out-of-Africa hypothesis of human origins. U.S. researcher Professor Alan Templeton doesn't support the so-called replacement theory in which African hominids caused the extinction of other Homo species. Instead, he believes that his analysis of the human genome showed that prehistoric gene-swapping created a single evolutionary lineage beginning in Africa and ending where we are today.
- Canadian Melt May Have Triggered Flood Impacting North Africa
Montreal Gazette (Randy Boswell) Summary of research presented in Current Anthropology. A British researcher has published a startling new theory that the remains of untold ancient settlements from a 100,000-year stretch of human history were submerged...
- Investigations Into The Domestication Of The Dog
New York Times (Nicholas Wade) Oh okay, slightly off topic, but it is a quiet news day today. Few people spend their honeymoon catching and drawing blood from village dogs up and down Africa. But Ryan and Corin Boyko, two anthropologists at the University...
- Call For Papers For Egypt In Its African Context
Call for Papers: "Egypt in its African Context", The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 3rd-4th October 2009 The African elements of the ancient Egyptian culture, and indeed its physical location in Africa, have frequently been ignored, and...
- Renfrew On Dna And Looting
Scotsman (Susan Mansfield) The link here to Egypt is a bit tenuous, but it is an interesting piece which does reference the Egyptian civilization so I have included it: FEW of us realise we carry around in our bodies the seeds of our most distant past....
- Book Review: Forgotten Africa
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/05_05_connah.htm This book is aimed at the "general reader and beginning student; advanced undergraduates and postgraduates may find the coverage a little too basic, and in terms of these readership criteria, Connah...