Monthly Archives: April 2015

When the Mediterranean became once more a sea

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Mukei

The Mediterranean . . . it’s got these couple of problems. It’s a respectable-sized sea, y’know; it covers an area of 970,000 square miles (2.5 million square kilometers). That much surface area, you get a lot of evaporation. Now, that’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate

They stopped, had a quick picnic, and carried on

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Mukei

John Hawks is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In winter of 2014 he offered a 7-week MOOC (“massively open online course”) through Coursera, entitled Human Evolution: Past and Future. Superbly done, offered for free, the course included … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoanthropology