Word: fossilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vanderschmidt, and edited by Leon Jaroff. David Wood, our Nairobi bureau chief, spent two weeks interviewing Leakey and his colleagues in such varied settings as the anthropologist's camp in northern Kenya, the noisy cabin of the four-seat Cessna that Leakey uses to get there, and the fossil storage room in the basement of Nairobi's International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute. "As in anthropology," Wood notes, "interpreting the mass of data that filled my notebooks proved more difficult than collecting...
...used to explain Africa's lack of development as a result of climate; more recently it has been argued that African culture was not backward, only different from the West's. In any event, one must remember that in a sense Africa is our common past (through fossil finds of increasing antiquity, man's evolutionary origins have been traced to East Africa). Besides, there are intimations in Africa's remnants of unspoiled nature, of secure tribal life, that we have lost something in what we regard as our gains. But the greatest of these gains...
...goal of fusion seems worth the work, for, as the world depletes the last of its fossil fuel, the promise of an inexhaustible supply of energy seems cheap at any price. There is enough deuterium in the oceans to supply energy -even if present demand increases a hundredfold-for 10 billion years...
Countries must develop short-term alternatives to oil, such as unclear energy, coal and other fossil fuels, he said...
Where will it end? It must end in a return to the days before 1800, to the days before the fossil fuels powered a vast machine industry and technology. It must end in subsistence farming and in a world population reduced by starvation, disease and violence to less than a billion...