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...like the creators of such dioramas, is practicing a vanishing art. It's not simply that digital photography is quickly becoming more popular than traditional film. It's that his tools?an 8 inch by 10 inch box camera, silver-emulsion film, and fiber-based paper?are virtually extinct. "The materials I use are becoming endangered species," he says. "A few months ago, my paper maker went bankrupt. I'm negotiating with the new owner to see if they are going to keep making my type of paper if I order enough per year. Kodak stopped making the kind...
Although you stated that alternative rock is on its way to becoming extinct [MUSIC, Dec. 16], you failed to mention that this is in the context of the mainstream music industry. It is very sad to learn that MTV and record sales have become the only indicator of the popular-music scene. Believe it or not, alternative music is still out there and thriving in the subculture of youth. Stick your head out of the office and take a look around. Don't rely on the tube and a few statistics. NORA GRUBER San Diego
...prior conclusions about the ancestors of homo sapiens. Analysis of the Floresian residents revealed that a non-homo sapiens species of human lived at the same time as homo sapiens. This is contrary to the hypothesis that less evolved species of hominids, such as homo erectus and Neanderthals, went extinct more than 50,000 years ago. “More unusual is the proposal that this hobbit species evolved from homo erectus through dwarfing,” said Lieberman. This phenomenon, he said, “occurs on islands when species are released from the pressures of predation but become...
...world of paleontology was thrown into an uproar last year when Australian scientists Michael Morwood and Peter Brown claimed they?d found fossils from an entirely new (though presumably extinct) human species, which they dubbed Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. For one thing, the diminutive creatures, nicknamed ?hobbits? by the scientists, were alive as recently as 13,000 years ago-meaning they survived tens of thousands of years longer than the Neanderthals, which we thought were our last surviving cousins. They might even have lived into modern times, if local legends of a race of forest-dwelling...
...evolved directly from Homo erectus, which was thought to have died out a half-million or so years ago-which the critics lambasted, is now looking less likely. But their new idea is even more audacious: the hobbits, they suggest, may come directly from the Australopithecus family, which went extinct something like 2 million years ago. Their detailed argument for this notion has yet to be published, and critics are still very cautious even about embracing the idea that the hobbits represent a new species at all. But while he agrees that more evidence is needed, Daniel Lieberman, a Harvard...