Quote: Yves Coppens on the invasion of paleontologists in East Africa
Virginia Morell’s excellent biography of the Leakey family, Ancestral Passions, includes a great discussion of the aftermath of the innovation of potassium-a...
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Quote: Robert Broom on the age of Australopithecus
In 1930, Robert Broom commented on the age of the Taung specimen. This is one of the earliest instances I have found of someone claiming that a fossil is “to...
From The Conversation: ‘Homo naledi: determining the age of fossils is not an exact science’
This is a reblog of my recent article on the Africa edition of The Conversation, “Homo naledi: determining the age of fossils is not an exact science”, which...