Big Rad Cave!

Liang Bua Cave, actually.

Neanderthal in Spanish

If you speak Spanish, this Neanderthal blog looks cool … I don’t, so I must drool from the sidelines.
Kinda like this guy:

Cool Sites for Paleoanthropology

Want a good Paleoanthropology site, but don’t know where to look?  Never fear, Afarensis has recomended two:
The first is called The Sunghir Archaeological Site. It is divided into the following sections: Anthropological findings (provides a basic overview of the skeletons), Morphology, Paleopathology, Trace element analysis of the bones, Molecular analysis of the DNA, What they [...]

The Evil Manta-Ray of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s is an ugly disease.  But, I dare say the picture here of the protein that is associated with the massive loss of neurons in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients is actually rather cool looking.
The fibrils consist of a protein fragment called amyloid-beta 1-40, an insoluble forty amino acid polypeptide generated by the sequential actions [...]