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...cannot help but be pessimistic. Without the Great Santorum to guide it, the 110th Congress will inevitably succumb to the homo-eroticization of American culture, San-Franciscan femi-nazis, dissolute youth, or all of the above. But fret not fellow patriots—there’s always...
...labs students learn how to interpret fossils, and how to use DNA sequences to determine evolutionary relationships. I also lecture on how advances in our understanding of the genome, for example the discovery of the Hox genes, bear on our understanding of morphological evolution. Finally, I discuss how we, Homo sapiens, fit into the tree of life, how our anatomy is largely a consequence of our early vertebrate heritage, and how our history fits into that of our planet. And I have been able to make this fundamental and rigorous science course popular...
...island uncovered ancient bones that included the 18,000-year-old skeleton of a 1-m-tall female with a brain the size of a grapefruit. In 2004, they announced in Nature magazine that the bones were the remains of a previously unknown species of human?which they named Homo floresiensis?that coexisted for a time with modern Homo sapiens. The remarkable discovery of this ancient hobbit meant the history of human evolution would have to be rewritten. For a moment, it seemed, myths could be true...
...their first-hand examination of the bones, the scientists concluded that Flores man isn't a member of a distinct human species. They claim instead that the specimen is the remains of an unfortunate pygmy with a form of microcephaly, a developmental disorder that shrinks the head and brain. Homo floresiensis "are just like hobbits," sniffs archaeologist Alan Thorne, one of the authors of the PNAS paper. "They're the products of someone's imagination...
...authors of the Nature article?Peter Brown and Michael Morwood, both of the University of New England in Australia?aren't backing down. In an e-mail, Brown told TIME that the PNAS paper "provides absolutely no evidence that the unique combination of features found in Homo floresiensis are found in any modern human." He argues that the asymmetry in the skull was due not to disease but to the skeleton being buried for thousands of years in 30 feet of sediment, which deformed the fossil. (Thorne insists the deformity must have happened before death.) Henry Gee, a senior editor...