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Toth notes that in several runs through the experiment, Kanzi always used the chip to cut toward himself, an observation that might help Toth better understand the first tools of Homo habilis some 2 million years ago. "For a Stone Age archaeologist like myself, seeing this is almost like a religious experience," says Toth, whose university awarded Kanzi a prize for providing the most insight into the origins of technology...
...environmentally is still evident, from statements in his introduction and the fact that only the first three of the book's 31 essays are devoted explicitly to ecological destruction. He discusses mass extinctions in later essays, but they're usually of the "millions-of-years ago" variety, long before Homo sapiens overwhelmed the world...
...Diversity of Life argues that Homo sapiens does not have the luxury of such a leisurely recovery. Nor does it deserve it, because it is now the leading threat to life-forms, including itself. What Darwin called the tangled bank and Wilson calls the web of life is a highly interdependent system. An event in one part of the web jiggles the whole...
...science and the art of teaching it. He moves easily from the macro to the micro, from the eruption of Krakatau to the silent messages of chromosomes. He strives for clarity, but never at the expense of complexity. An explanation of how species evolve may require more attention than Homo televideous is willing to muster. Hang in. Accounts of the author's field experiences convey an excitement of discovery that many readers probably last felt as children examining insects in a patch of grass...
...Homo tyrolensis, as some scientists have dubbed him, also had a leather pouch resembling a small version of the "fanny packs" worn by tourists today. Inside he carried a sharpened piece of bone, probably used to make sewing holes in leather, and a flint-stone drill and blade. A sloeberry, probably his snack food, was found at the site, along with two mushrooms strung on a knotted leather cord. The mushrooms have infection-fighting properties and may have been part of the world's oldest-known first-aid kit. The only decorative item, possibly a talisman, was a small, doughnut...