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You're not missing much Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.

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Evolutionary Humour, SA style

Category: bloggeryfossils
Posted on: August 10, 2007 12:22 PM, by Chris Rowan

The last couple of days have been public holidays here - yesterday was National Women's Day - and today I took advantage of this to visit the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site - specifically the Sterkfontein Caves, a very important location in the study of early hominids. I'll probably write a more detailed post about my visit over the weekend, but it's nice to see that despite its noticeable religious conservatism, South Africa's palaeoanthropological heritage is being properly celebrated and made open to the public. With that thought in mind, I'd just like to share with you these postcards I found in the gift shop there.

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Pretty corny, perhaps, but I think Brian could point me to some people who wouldn't find these at all amusing.

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Haha, I love it! My mom bought me some magnets featuring chimpanzees with some corny evolutionary jokes for my birthday, and I've never been one to shy away from corny science jokes (i.e. "Those are some gneiss rocks you've got there").

Posted by: Laelaps | August 10, 2007 1:01 PM

A picture is worth... But can apes smile and roll their eyes like that?

Posted by: George D. Turner | August 10, 2007 3:43 PM

Who said evolutionary biologist don't have a sense of humour...

Posted by: the scientician | August 13, 2007 11:43 AM

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