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ResoluteReader (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... adapt. The surprising role of climate change in getting us to were we are now is clearly explained.Finlayson looks at why the Neanderthals went extinct and we didn't. There is every evidence that our ancestors and Neanderthals lived close together at the same time, though no evidence that they interbreed. Certainly they would have encountered each other while hunting or moving to different...
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Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A scientist has suggested that the Neanderthals might have gone extinct because of a deadly combination of bad luck and climate change. According to a report in New Scientist, the scientist in question is evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson. The Neanderthals, a race of cavemen who ruled Europe and Asia, mysteriously vanished between 28,000 and 24,000 years ago. Since [...]
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Gib News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Professor Clive Finlayson's latest book "The Humans who went Extinct" (Oxford University Press) which was launched in Gibraltar during this year's Calpe Conference is receiving wide international publicity. Within this coverage Gibraltar is ...
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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... what has been written about the ancient human species may as well be, says evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson in his informative monograph. Take their disappearance, which a team led by Finlayson has pinpointed to the rock of Gibraltar, between 28,000 and 24,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal bones in Belgium in 1829, anthropologists have proposed...
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New Scientist (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
According to Clive Finlayson in The Humans Who Went Extinct , we were just lucky
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Short Sharp Science (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... enzymes that tolerate pollution Why did our species survive the Neanderthals? According to Clive Finlayson in The Humans Who Went Extinct , we were just lucky Malcolm Gladwell's miscellany of myths Superstar writer Malcolm Gladwell teases out complexities behind the obvious and fun in the mundane in his collection of essays, What the Dog Saw The music of Life on Earth Edward Williams's...
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New Scientist - Focus on America (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... off can now provide evidence, thanks to amplification enzymes that tolerate pollution According to Clive Finlayson in The Humans Who Went Extinct, we were just lucky Superstar writer Malcolm Gladwell teases out complexities behind the obvious and fun in the mundane in his collection of essays, What the Dog Saw Edward Williams's music for Life on Earth is as atmospheric and innovative...
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Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... in the savannah. The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson Finlayson discusses why and possibly how Neandertals were so easily replaced by modern humans. He argues that the harsh landscape of early Africa, about 100,000 years ago, when modern humans emerged forced them to learn new technologies and lifestyles that were, “more...
