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Thursday, March 14, 2002

UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin Of Earliest Fossils. [Science Daily] 9:59:10 PM    comment   trackback []

New record for Universe's most distant object This time it is not a superbright quasar but one of the first galaxies, an astonishing 13.6 billion light years away [New Scientist] 9:57:10 PM    comment   trackback []

The Strange Case of the Iron Sun "The tale of these ancient hominids revolves around one huge question: Were they our direct ancestors, or were they an evolutionary dead end brushed aside by another, more advanced species?" [Discover Magazine] There is a term for the propensity to view new, additional data in an ongoing investigation (such as human evolution) as part of the existing continuium or indicative of a new grouping. I need to drag out my Philosophy of Science textbooks... it's not "open minded" and "close minded" 9:55:01 PM    comment   trackback []