Daily Links

I'm going to try and remember every day to post a few links to posts by some of the other ScienceBloggers, mostly because if you're just reading my blog and not visiting the other blogs here, you're really missing out on some great writing. From yesterday:

Afarensis has an article about and a link to some new fossil finds, this time specimens of A. anamensis that will likely help us clarify our understanding of the relationships between various pre-Homo hominids. John Lynch, who works at the Institute on Human Origins at Arizona State, also has a post on that subject.

Orac has an examination of Linus Pauling's claim that megadoses of vitamin C cures cancer and other assorted bad things.

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Babel's Dawn is providing coverage of the Cradle of Language conference in South Africa. Several presenters at the conference are challenging the idea that language arose from a single genetic mutation.
Rusty Lopez of the New Covenant blog has stated that his latest response to me regarding the "testable creation model" that he advocates will be his last. I thank him for an engaging dialogue on these issues, and regret that he chooses not to continue the conversation.