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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
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Clarence Darrow, Inherit the Wind
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Thea, Isle of the Dead
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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: Anthropology
A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:26 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Creationism
There have been a wide variety of responses to the PZ incident. Quite a large number of us a busy laughing at the irony of it. There has been some criticism, for example see here, here, here, here, and here....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 6:33 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: War on Science
I kid you not!...
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Category: War on Science
According to Science News Daily the number three person at the Interior Department edited a National Park Service report on the Everglades:...
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Category: War on Science
Via Red State Rabble comes the news that Abu Al is going to Seattle to give a speech sponsored by the Discovery Institute......
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 7:54 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: War on Science
According to Yahoo News the Marbled Murrelet is, again in danger of being delisted....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 11:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Book Review
Americans have a love/hate relationship with science and scientists and this often spills over into pop culture representations....
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Category: War on Science
But Iain Murray, a senior fellow at the institute, said Davis apparently misunderstood the ads. "We're not questioning global warming," Murray said. "What we're questioning is global warming alarmism."
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 11:17 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Anthropology
Added Later: Duane over at Abnormal Interests has an interesting discussion of the bill... Via Kambiz at Anthropology.Net comes news of impending cuts that would strip money for behavioral research from the NSF budget. The American Anthropological Association has this...
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