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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 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!
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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
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The Declaration of Independence
Category: Blogs of Note
It has older dirt, newer thoughts, and extra scoops of artifactual goodness. It also has a new home so adjust your links accordingly. Old Dirt - New Thoughts can now be found here If you are unfamiliar with Old Dirt...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 7:53 PM • •
Category: Blogs of Note
Dr. Isis is trying to fund an award. She explains the goal: The APS has very kindly agreed to allow us (hang tight, I'm not asking for money, seriously) to fund an award at this year's Experimental Biology meeting for...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:17 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
File this one under 'Total Bummer". Monkeys In The News has closed up shop. The final post is about the - primate - writer: Unfortunately, with my current work load, I am not able to keep up with regular updating...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:45 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Cultural Resource Management
Carl Feagans has an interesting post about an article by Byron Loosle on looting. Carl says: Interestingly enough, I empathize -as I'm sure most archaeologists and cultural resource managers do- with the commenter's motivation to pick up and keep an...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:07 PM • •
Category: Blogs of Note
I stumbled across a blog called The Prancing Papio today. It is the blog of a biological anthropology major at Queens College - CUNY. Check it out (especially the the post on the Ileret footprints for example). * * Did...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
PhysOrg.Com has an interesting story on Project 23. From PhysOrg.Com: Researchers discovered 16 fossil deposits under an old parking lot next to the tar pits in 2006 and began sifting through them last summer. The mammoth remains, including 10-foot-long tusks,...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:23 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
i see Laden beat me to mentioning Anna's Bones, of course he didn't quote from one of her posts like I am: Neanderthals have proved to be the perfect 'repository' for all our human projections - they are the...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:15 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
If you like insects you will love a blog I just stumbled across. Beetles in the Bush, subtitled Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist, is written by Ted C. MacRae. Currently his top post explains the the connection between...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:24 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Blogs of Note
RPM, the blogger behind Evolgen is calling it quits. He claims it was due to being burnt out and the demands of being a post-doc. However, this is a cover up. Through weeks hours seconds of brilliant research I was...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:55 PM • •
Category: Blogs of Note
Occasionally I stumble across interesting anthropology blogs. Other times the writers of interesting anthropology blogs find me. A case in point is Lawn Chair Anthropology, a blog written by five anthropology students in Michigan. I know I will be adding...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
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