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Written April 22, 2008 in anthropology, fossils, human prehistory
Lee Berger defends himself against the attack on him by Nature (which we mentioned a few days ago):
In fact, it is Mr. Dalton’s attempts to find a story where there was none that may have done damage to our ability to conduct research on human remains on Palau. We who do field research are very [...]
Written April 17, 2008 in anthropology, austronesian, evolution, fossils, genetics, human prehistory, people, science
Today’s Nature covers the controversy about the recent paper Small-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia by Berger et al. Last month, Berger and colleagues claimed that they’d found a collection of small bodied humans dating back between 940 and 2890 years (cal bp) in a burial cave in Palau:
Preliminary sampling of two burial caves in Palau, [...]
..has a shock exposé about the truth behind the grand canyon (”it was formed in a couple of days after Noah’s Flood says random wild guess by Bible scholar with no knowledge of geography”), and an exclusive interview with creationist (and jailed fraudster*) Kent Hovind.
Ok. Maybe not - it’s my favorite entry by el Gran [...]
Written March 31, 2008 in africa, anthropology, books, evolution, fossils, genetics, human prehistory, people, stupidity
No doubt you’ve all seen some of the hype surrounding the new book, Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger. The book argues that a long-extinct hominin species, the “Boskops”, were much smarter then we are:
Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely [...]
I am so buying one of these t-shirts.
Which brings me to my tyrannical fantasy. I want to take a journey 68 million years back in time to see a Tyrannosaurus rex couple mating. What was it like? Did they trumpet and bellow and stamp their feet? Did they thrash their enormous tails? Did he bite her neck in rapture and exude a [...]
‘cos it’s Valentines day - Evolution, by Langdon Smith:
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy [...]
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