Afarensis: Anthropology, Evolution and Science
Friday, September 09, 2005

Oh, and one other thing

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I heard on NPR that a Federal Appeals court has given Bush to detain American citizens on American soil as enemy combatants... Nothing about...

A Followup to Comments

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Comments on my previous post call for a more indepth folloup - because they are on target. So let's develop it a bit more. From Eschaton...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

What Gives Me Hope

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Coturnix at Science and Politics has an incredibly interesting post about "mob rule", "crowd rule" and heroism. I stron...

Why I'm Starting to Get Really Pissed Off

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Let's start with Nixon sues to shut some relief Web sites . Apparently the web sites were run by someone with ties to racist groups: Mis...

Bush and Katrina

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From the Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Katrina Death Toll

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From ABC News Reporter's Blog: Death Toll Mounts Dennis Powell Rich Esposito Sept. 5, 2005 Two senior-level state and federal sources sa...

Irish Elk and Fallow Deer

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The above is a picture of the skull of an Irish Elk. According to National Geographic News a study in Nature has linked Irish Elk to Fallow...

Comets and Organic Molecules

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Deep Impact collision ejected the stuff of life Millions of kilograms of fine dust particles and water and a "surprisingly high" a...

Vikings!

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King loses mother but gains a daughter Mitochondrial DNA and forensic anthropology has been used to identify the remains long thought to be ...

Here's the Question

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Josh Marshall has a slightly different take The real story about the Brown memo below is, How did it get public? The knives, or rather, not ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

This Could Be Big

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Yahoo News is reporting that: The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Co...

Chimpanzee Fossils

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As recently reported in Nature, fossil teeth of chimpanzees have been found. They date to about 545,000 years ago. Besides being some of the...

In Memorium

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Bob Denver passed away today due to complications from cancer treatments. He was 70 years old. "I certainly didn't set out to have ...
Sunday, September 04, 2005

How Cool Is That!

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In my recent post on Ichthyostega I mentioned I didn't have access to Nature. Low and behold when I checked my email On Friday I had all...

Speaking of the Devil

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As I am blogging this morning I'm watching the news (first time in a while) and low and behold Fox news is following the Republican ...

You Heard it Here First

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Deep Scope is starting to get a lot of attention here and here for example. But you heard it here and here first!

Our Government at Work

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From MSNBC : Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babinea...
Saturday, September 03, 2005

Of Crabs and Hagfish

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There are a number of videos available from the Deep Scope missions mentioned in a previous post. One of the more interesting is a confronta...
Friday, September 02, 2005

New Species of Squid Discovered

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After dodging Hurricane Katrina, researchers in the Deep Scope exepediton reports the discovery of a new species of squid pictured above. F...

Grasshoppers Being Murdered By Hairworms

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The above is a picture of a parasitic hairworm - a species of Nematamorph. They have a unique pattern of reproduction: Gordian worms or hair...
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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions: The Evolution of Life
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