Akufu

Mammoth DNA is popular! Mainly, because unusually well preserved mammoth material is available from the permafrost; where complete mammoths have been found, including hair, meat, gut content. Compare this to the measly bone fragments available from mammoth contemporaries, most notably early hominids.

Horizon on the BBC yesterday was a surprising watch for me; the war on science, was about the rise (and fall? ah wishful thinking) of intelligent design in the USA.

New research highlighted in Nature this week showed that Internet surfers make up their mind about a website in an astonishing 50 milliseconds!

Looking back on 2005, the last few weeks of that year were extremely exciting with respect to archaeology and paleontology. Here a summary of two major news events.

Hominids
First, great findings from Britain, completely revising the view on how early Homo colonised North-Western Europe.