Some famous paleontologists and anthropologists like Mark Goodwin, Donald Johanson, John Kappelman, and Anne Molineux of the Texas Memorial Museum, have helped Scott Solomon answer the question, “Do We Need the Original Lucy Fossil?“
I don’t wanna steal thunder from the post… but with all this drama ensuing over Lucy’s trip out here, I haven’t heard [...]
September 10, 2007
Wait, do we even need the original Lucy fossil?
September 10, 2007
Las Cuevas del Monte Castillo, Cantabria, Spain
I recently visited a couple of Palaeolithic painted cave sites, namely Las Monedas and El Castillo, and have written them up at Remote Central, along with links to images both outside the caves, along with a few I scanned from a brochure my guide very kindly gave me at the end of my two tours [...]
September 10, 2007
The Influence of Political Orientation in Brain Function
One of our more popular posts of the last month, has surprisingly been this short little blurb on the influence of pronouns in brain function. To extend that, there’s new research that shows neurons of liberals and conservatives, react differently when confronted with tough choices, suggesting that political orientation may be hard-wired.
The study has been [...]
September 10, 2007
Are sisters more genetically similar than other siblings?
People often ask whether biological sisters from the same parents are more closely related than a brother and sister? Why do they ask this? Because, sisters get the same X chromosome from their father. Ken Weiss, professor of anthropology and genetics at Penn State answered that question, stating that sister-sisters siblings are more genetically similar [...]
