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• My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
• Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was…
• It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
• In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or…
• Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
• It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…
• It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
• For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These…
• Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with.…
• The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
• Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated…
• Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in…

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