Alison Campbell • Apr 26, 2015 •
Today's Life/Style section in the Herald on Sunday brings us the latest 'beauty trend' to hit our shores: the snail facial. Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently one can (if one has a sufficiency of funds) already purchase Snail... Read More
Alison Campbell • Sep 07, 2011 •
This comes at an opportune time for those of you teaching the Human Evolution content - and for those looking around for some follow-up reading :-) The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has a whole lot of free biology education resources available... Read More
Alison Campbell • Apr 05, 2010 •
This morning's NZ Herald carried a story from the UK Telegraph under the headline "Child's skeleton missing link to man's ape-like forebears.' It could have been worse: the Telegraph's headline was 'Missing link between man & apes found' (sigh). I read the article... Read More
Alison Campbell • Mar 29, 2010 •
The latest edition of Nature carries an item that raises the possibility of another new - & recent - new hominin species, this time from Siberia (Krasuse et al., 2010). A few years ago, when the story about Homo floresiensis first broke, I... Read More
Alison Campbell • Oct 06, 2009 •
After writing about 'Ardi', I remembered that this wasn't the only paper I'd read recently suggesting that our ancestors were not knucklewalkers and that knuckle-walking must have evolved independently in the gorilla & chimp lineages. (We can say this because,... Read More
Alison Campbell • Oct 03, 2009 •
A friend of mine's sent me an item from National Geographic with the headline 'Oldest "human" skeleton found - disproves "missing link"'. (Thanks, Heather!) The story itself is based on the publication this week of a series of papers describing aspects... Read More
Alison Campbell • Oct 02, 2009 •
Last night I caught parts of Caveman (starring Ringo Starr & a dinosaur) while playing with the puppy - the daughter & her friend were watching it. Um, er, what can I say? ...?? I liked the dinosaur, he had personality... Read More