Dino Puppet Eats Horsey Puppet for _Breakfast_!
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Not impressed with Horsey Puppet? Okay. I give you Dino Puppet! Raawwwwrrrrr!!
Courtesy of Phil Plait.
Not impressed with Horsey Puppet? Okay. I give you Dino Puppet! Raawwwwrrrrr!!
Courtesy of Phil Plait.
Via Slashdot, here’s a really interesting (to me, at least) article in Discover: What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us? It’s excerpted from Gary Lynch and Richard Granger’s book, Big brain: the origins and future of human intelligence.
It’s a good reminder that our self-serving notions of progress, while providing a comforting myth, are not necessarily always supported by the fossil record.