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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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Mark Twain
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Afarensis
"It isn't faith that makes good science...it's curiosity"
Prof. Jacob Barnhardt, The Day the Earth Stood Still
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Clarence Darrow, Inherit the Wind
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Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still
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The Simpsons
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Seymour Krelborn, The Little Shop of Horrors
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Thea, Isle of the Dead
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"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
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The Declaration of Independence
Category: Anthropology
I recently wrote about a lawsuit filed against Yale, Skull and Bones, and the Federal Government by descendents of Geronimo. The situation has become a little more complicated....
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Category: Cultural Anthropology
I don't know how I missed this, but last Friday legendary anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss turned 100. The International Herald Tribune has an interesting article on Levi-Strauss that is worth a read....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:11 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Anthropology
The American Anthropological Association has announced that it will give open access to the American Anthropologist and Anthropology News. There are limitations, however. Starting in 2009 the AAA will give free access to issues published between 1888 and 1973. Basically,...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 4:11 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Cultural Anthropology
The BBC has an interesting article the Hadza and modernity called The Pied Piper of Eyasi - it is part of their "Life on the Edge" series....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 7:56 PM • •
Category: Cultural Anthropology
I'm channeling my inner Coturnix and Greg Laden for this and the following posts. Wired Magazine has an article on Montgomery McFate and the Human Terrain Teams and is promising more stories on the subject later in the week. I've...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:20 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Cultural Anthropology
An interesting mix of anthropology and drama:...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:33 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: In Memoriam
Germaine Tillion was an extraordinary woman. Here is a rather lengthy quote from Yahoo News:...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:21 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Anthropology
The website for Discover Magazine has an interesting article called Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars?. The article, ostensibly about Douglas Fry's book Beyond War seeks the opinion of a number of anthropologists, archaeologists and biologists (Frans...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:32 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Bioarchaeology
This is an interesting story, construction workers in Sydney discovered a 4,000 year old skeleton. What makes the find interesting is that it seems to be the oldest example of ritual spearing in Australia....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:16 PM • •
Category: Cultural Anthropology
NPR had an interesting commentary, yesterday, on the evolving thanksgiving tradition in one Nigerian-American family. You can listen to it here....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:16 AM • 1 Comments •
