scootalootheadventurer:

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limegl0wstix:

(Source: house-of-romanov)

intooishun:

Inspirational Stationery - Darren Healey

theolduvaigorge:

My Primate Family Tree, Edinburgh Zoo

• Images and text by artist Russell Dempster

“I was approached a while back by Edinburgh Zoo to design ‘My Primate Family Tree’ for the Living Links department of the zoo. It was to be an educational mural to show a few representatives from the hundreds of living primates, and tell us how closely related we are to each with the bonus of being able to take part in the picture and then completing the link. It fills an outside space of 2.3m x 3m. Every monkey and ape was drawn individually and all pieced together at the final artwork stage and then printed onto 3 panels.

The base of the tree represents the evolutionary origin of primates about 65 million years ago. The Capuchin and Squirrel monkeys on the bottom left represent the primates of the ‘New World’ (The Americas) that split from other evolving primates about 35 million years ago. Next, the Gelada Baboon, Japanese Macaque and Diana Monkey on the top left represent the ‘Old World’ monkeys of Africa and Asia that split from the apes shown on the right about 25 million years ago. Our closest relative is the Chimpanzee, then it’s the Gorilla and then the Orang-utan. These great apes and ourselves are a family that share a common ancestor about 14 million years ago.”

For more information about the divergence of humans and apes see:

• Langergraber, K.E. et al. 2012. “Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution,” PNAS 109(39):15716–15721
• Pontzer, H. 2012. ”Overview of Hominin Evolution,” Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):8 (open access)

gunrunnerhell:

Crests

Just a few of the various Mauser crests from different nations.

From top to bottom…

Czechoslovakian

Turkish

Persian

Israeli

Portuguese

Colombian

Yugoslavian

theolduvaigorge:

Sketches of Homo heidelbergensis from Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos (Spain) from the series ‘Homínidos’

• by Manu Mediaoreja

The sketches are based on the skull number 5, nicknamed “Miguelón”. Click through for more of Manu Medaioreja’s work or visit him on tumblr at Manu Mediaoreja Illustration.

Questions regarding the Homo heidelbergensis Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca) specimens:

“The world’s largest known sample of fossil humans has been classified as the species Homo heidelbergensis but in fact are early Neanderthals, according to a study by Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum.

This puts the species Homo heidelbergensis back at the heart of human evolution as the last common ancestor that we, Homo sapiens, shared with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, says Stringer, the Museum’s Research Leader in Human Origins. The Status of Homo heidelbergensis study, which was published in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology this week, reviews the fossil and DNA evidence for the existence of heidelbergensis and its place in the human family tree.

Central to the discussion is the important site of La Sima de los Huesos (meaning ‘Pit of the bones’), in Atapuerca, northern Spain. It has yielded more than 6,000 fossils from about 28 individuals. They had been identified as H. heidelbergensis by the team who originally discovered the fossils, and have been estimated to be about 600,000 years old. For some palaeontologists, such as Stringer, this has confused ideas about where heidelbergensis sits in the human family tree” (read more).

For more information see:

• Homo heidelbergensis (Becoming Human, Institute of Human Origins).
• Homo heidelbergensis (Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History).

• The Mystery of the Pit of Bones, Atapuerca, Spain (Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History).

• Mounier A, Marchal F, Condemi S. 2009. “Is Homo heidelbergensis a distinct species? New insight on the Mauer mandible,” Journal of Human Evolution 56(3):219-46.
• Rightmire, G.P. 1998. “Human Evolution in the Middle Pleistocene: The Role of Homo heidelbergensis,” Evolutionary Anthropology 6:218-227. (open access).
• Stringer, C. 2012. “The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908),” Evolutionary Anthropology 21(3):101-107.

(Text source: Natural History Museum, London)

cookiekween:

And there you have it. The main cast of Cookies and Crime. A few changes and a few new characters. And it should be noted that Redusa’s (previously Ori) name was Quillystuff’s idea. And Lemony is a character loosely based on Crypticsparrow’s OC. 

cussyeah-wesanderson:

 

The fantastic mr. Fox concept art by Chris Appelhans