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...genetic change over time. By calculating backward, they determined that great apes and hominids branched from a common ancestor between 6 million and 4 million years ago. But no fossils were on hand to support this scenario. The oldest hominid species known, Australopithecus afarensis (southern ape of the Afar), could be dated back only 3.6 million years. Its most famous member, Lucy, unearthed in Ethiopia's bleak Afar Triangle in 1974, is a mere 3.2 million years...
Because the fossils were too distinctive to be included in Lucy's extended Australopithecus family, the researchers called the new species Ardipithecus ramidus (ardi means ground or floor in the local Afar language, and ramid means root). White and his colleagues have since found other ramidus fossils at their site but are giving out precious few details until they complete their methodical analysis of the bones. Says ramidus co-discoverer Berhane Asfaw of the Rift Valley Research Service in Addis Ababa: "It will be worth the wait...
Outside the pavilion, Hamilton has erected a 90-ft. wall of glass and steel that blocks the prospect of the building from afar. Up close, looking through the glass, the building seems to wobble and melt, blurred and distorted...
Epps watched from afar as Glimp's final attempt to end the standoff was unsuccessful, and the state police began to force their...
...point of exams is not to make you sum up the entire course, or filter it down into the three major things worth knowing. (That's only the point of exams in Core classes.) The point is to make you study--to force you to admire, if only from afar, that vast expanse of time and thought...