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• Why didnt they let Kenyanthropus save them?

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 431
  In the fossil record, a species is a hypothesis. We cant test that hypothesis in the way we do with living animals. Even in the dark, after all the paleontologists have left, the fossil bones just wont get it on . No reproduction, no test. So, sometimes we have to live with hypotheses that we cant immediately test. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The teeth that didnt bark

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 431
  Earlier in the week, I wrote about the new interpretation of fossil teeth from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia ( "Woranso-Mille: A ladder not a bush" ). There was one aspect of the paper that I wanted to comment at some greater length: Why didnt the paper include comparisons with the Lomekwi sample of teeth and mandibles? ...
  3 weeks ago

• Woronso-Mille: A ladder not a bush

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 431
  In a new paper, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and colleagues describe new hominin fossils from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia. A good thing: It gives somebody like me a rationale for describing early hominins from the point of view of Hadar. You see, Hadar is the first sample to include a really complete skeletal representation. ...
  4 weeks ago

• November 24 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 553
  On November 24: 1429   Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieged La Charité . 1642   Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania ). 1663 map of Van Diemen’s Land, showing the parts discovered by Tasman.   1690   Charles Theodore ...
  5 weeks ago

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