Category: Sticklebacks
A number of people have emailed me a link to this story about "reverse evolution" in sticklebacks residing in Lake Washington. The basic story is that as Lake Washington was cleaned of its pollution sticklebacks went from being low plated...
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Posted by afarensis, FCD at 12:09 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Anthropology
The other day when I said blogging would be light I had the best of intentions, but like when Bill Dembski shouts"Waterloo" reality has conspired against me. The intertubewebnet thingy has thrown some interesting stories up into the cybersphere....
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Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:47 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science in the Media
Kambiz mentions a new archaeology show on the Discovery Channel. The show is called The Bone Detectives and is scheduled to start airing on January 14th. The Discovery Channel has been airing "sneak peaks" and the episode I caught concerns...
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Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:24 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Paleoanthropology
As I mentioned here various and sundry media organizations are having a field day with the recently announced discovery of some fossil teeth belonging to a new species of Miocene ape. The find in itself is quite interesting, but:...
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Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:30 AM • •
Category: Paleoanthropology
According to both National Georgraphic and the BBC new fossils - this time of some molars and a canine - are being announced in the journal Nature (I'm in the process of tracking the article down and will say more...
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Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:32 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Science in the Media
ABC News has in interesting article on the finding of two new species of plesiosaur in Australia. Overall, the article isn't bad, but there are a few problems with it....
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Posted by afarensis, FCD at 12:26 PM • 6 Comments •