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...years ago, in a dry wash known as Kanapoi in Kenya, Harvard Paleontologist Bryan Patterson was poking around for old bones when he came upon what looked like a routine fragment. "I said to myself, 'Ho hum, there's another knuckle bone,' " Patterson told a news conference in Cambridge, Mass., last week. Actually, it was a bit of serendipity. After laboratory analysis of the radioactive decay in the lava surrounding the bone, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology determined that the bone must be 2,500,000 years old. Since it is a piece of humerus...
...Wendell Phillips, paleontologist, is rather like a mirage on one of the Arabian deserts that he frequents. He looks too good to be true and he never quite comes into focus. By his own account, he has an apartment in Hawaii that is "the most beautiful in the world." He also says he has the world's largest library in South Arabia, owns part of a large apartment complex in Sacramento. He neither smokes nor drinks, but he is such a prodigious dancer that in his own words, "I have to take young 17-and 18-year-old girls...
Primeval Presumption. During an electron microscopic examination of samples of ancient, black sedimentary rock from South Africa, Paleontologist Barghoorn uncovered the remains of 3-billion-year-old, rod-shaped organisms so small that 50,000 of them, placed end to end, would measure only an inch. Until his find, the oldest known forms of life were more complex tiny organisms-also identified and photographed by Barghoorn (TIME, March 12)-that existed about 2 billion years ago. With the older specimens, he now believes "we are getting close to an area in time-say within a half-billion years-of possible...
...English-born Pianist Richard Hoffman, combined both, carved herself a career as a fashionable sculptor. Rodin, Gutzon Borglum, Ivan Mestrovic were her teachers; Mrs. E. H. Harriman was a patroness; and some of her best friends were subjects: Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski, Dancer Anna Pavlova, Surgeon Harvey Cushing, Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to portraits of the wealthy and the famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship at Bush House, London; 104 life-size studies for the Races of Man series at Chicago's Natural History Museum; the American War Memorial...
Life on earth began more than 2 billion years ago, but only in a few places are primitive fossils clear enough to give paleontologists any faint clue to what that life was like. Most rocks that date from those early years have been deeply buried for so long and subjected to so much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso...