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The inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores used to tell stories of a separate race of little people called the ebu gogo, 3-ft.-tall, hairy human-like creatures that hid in the island's many limestone caves. Supposedly the ebu gogo - the name roughly means "grandmother who eats...
The original authors of the Nature paper - Peter Brown and Michael Morwood, both of the University of New England in Australia - aren't about to surrender their belief in a new species. In an email, Brown says that the PNAS paper "provides absolutely no evidence that the unique combination of...
Such sharp animosity isn't unusual in the disputatious field of human evolution studies, where as Thorne points out, "There are more human evolutionists than there are fossils to go along with them." But the Flores debate seems to bring out the inner fifth-grader in grownups with PhDs. After...
Here's a piece of technology that should empower people from the bottom up to make self-sustaining, new forms of infrastructure. And I think the lesson here is that technology, 50 years ago, was all mega-technology. Big Blue and mainframes... Ma Bell had pieces of copper wire running...
In tactical terms, Yushchenko smartly used Yanukovych to neutralize Tymoshenko, her blend of populism, radicalism and charisma perceived as a bigger threat. Now, however, he may be able to just as effectively use Tymoshenko's opposition status to keep Yanukovych in check, should the latter?s evolution fail to prove...