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Special Edition of Evolution: Education and Outreach!
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| Date: | 2009-06-08 16:23:08 |
| Blog: | Laelaps  |
| URL: | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/mTGk/~3/Mj7An12u7g4/special_edition_of_evolution_e.php |
Summary:
In case you haven't heard, the latest edition of the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach is almost entirely about transitional fossils. There's something for everyone, from synapsids to onychophorans, so make sure you check it out! My only complaint, though, is that there is not a paper about early hominins or human evolution. Human evolution is often ignored or given short shrift when we talk about transitional fossils, yet the past several decades have seen an explosion in new types of extinct humans. I have no idea why such a paper does not appear in the collection (perhaps one was solicited but not completed), but I hope that such a review will soon be printed in the pages of Evolution. Since much of the culture war over evolution is rooted in different ways of finding our place in nature, defenders of evolution ignore paleoanthropology at their own peril. Read the comments on this post...Content analysis:
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culture war, decades, different ways, evolution education, evolution human evolution, explosion, extinct humans, hominins, outreach, peril, short shrift, synapsids, transitional fossils
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