New Insights into Human Origins - Part 3
Kia ora, It's hard to believe that another year has drawn to a close. With regards to the contemporary world, 2021 was certainly a year that presented many challenges as the global COVID-19 pandemic continued. However, I don't want to continue to dwell on all of that in today's post - but instead provide a brief and hopefully interesting respite by looking back to hundreds of thousands of years ago. As I have previously mentioned on this blog a keen area of interest of mine is the study of human origins and despite global restrictions on travel and fieldwork last year, there was a whole heap of relevant research reported in 2021. What would I pick as my favourites? It really is hard for me to go past what I consider to be an outstanding technological and methodological achievement - a " 'game changer' in the field" as I described it in a post back in April 2021 - the successful extraction and analysis of nuclear DNA from a number of species, including h