Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul..." Mark Twain
"Ideology is a poor substitute for rational thought..." Afarensis
"It isn't faith that makes good science...it's curiosity" Prof. Jacob Barnhardt, The Day the Earth Stood Still
"This man wishes to be accorded the same privilege as a sponge. He wishes to think!" Clarence Darrow, Inherit the Wind
"...I become fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason..." Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still
"I want you to grab life by its little bunny ears and get in its face..." The Simpsons
"This is between me and the vegetable..." Seymour Krelborn, The Little Shop of Horrors
"There are bad laws and cruel laws and the people who enforce them are both bad and cruel..." Thea, Isle of the Dead
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Jean- Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"But the limit of tolerance for these human foibles is obtained when the proponent of a questionable scientific doctrine endeavors to maintain it against all possible odds by misrepresentation, misinformation and suppression of contradictory data, and by insinuating unfairness in opponents of his views." Franz Weidenreich, Morphology of Solo Man
"Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconcious, impersonal material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny." George Gaylord Simpson, Life of the Past
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the phd,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the phd,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree! Unknown
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Frederich Nietzsche
I'm looking for the following list of articles, if you send one please leave a comment so duplicate copies are kept to a minimum. Please send them to afarensis1@sbcglobal.net
Thank you in advance.
6) Control of segment origin in vertebrate embryos
7) Evolutionary origin and and development of snake fangs
9) Segmental patterning of the vertebrate embryonic axis
I see that my numbering got off register, what I called 9 above was really 10. I think that's everything except the real #9) Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales
I'll get no. 9 to you just as soon as the snails bring the packages to me. Somewhere someone has slowed down the internet to a pace not seen since Windows ran off MS-DOS.
I sent you a copy of the Neandertal paper, too. Since you seem to have had somebody else send it to you, feel free to discard it or send the extra copy on to anybody who might need it. I'm happy to share something lile this.
Anne G
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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called 
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Paper 1 (Panderichthys) sent
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 9:56 AM
6) Control of segment origin in vertebrate embryos
7) Evolutionary origin and and development of snake fangs
9) Segmental patterning of the vertebrate embryonic axis
done
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:02 AM
8) The first skull and other new discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia
done
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:05 AM
2) Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar
done
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:14 AM
Sent 2,3,4,5 and 11.
Posted by: scicurious | September 23, 2008 10:15 AM
2) Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar
3)Symbolic Use of Terrestrial Gastropod Opercula during the Middle Stone Age at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia
4) Zhoukoudian Upper Cave Revisited
5) A New Cultural Frontier for the Last Neanderthals: The Uluzzian in Northern Italy
done
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:17 AM
I see that my numbering got off register, what I called 9 above was really 10. I think that's everything except the real
#9) Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales
to which I do not have access.
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:21 AM
Wow! That was quick! Thanks!
Posted by: afarensis, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:23 AM
So easy an evolved monkey could do it.
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | September 23, 2008 10:26 AM
I'll get no. 9 to you just as soon as the snails bring the packages to me. Somewhere someone has slowed down the internet to a pace not seen since Windows ran off MS-DOS.
Posted by: Bob O'H | September 23, 2008 10:48 AM
OK, the snails had to hand over to the tortoises, but it's on its way.
Posted by: Bob O'H | September 23, 2008 10:53 AM
If I were the kind of person who enjoyed being snarky, I'd suggest the turtles turn it over to the dancing Darwin monkeys, but I'm not :)
Posted by: afarensis, FCD | September 23, 2008 11:15 AM
I forgot to say Thanks Bob!
Posted by: afarensis, FCD | September 23, 2008 11:21 AM
I sent you a copy of the Neandertal paper, too. Since you seem to have had somebody else send it to you, feel free to discard it or send the extra copy on to anybody who might need it. I'm happy to share something lile this.
Anne G
Posted by: Anne Gilbert | September 23, 2008 5:04 PM