Fossils Offer 'Window' into Human Evolution

Will the real missing link please stand up!

This is a cute one, I have to say. I can't look at sediba without thinking of patting it on the head...

make a great pet fossil, I guess...

Don't we have the Senate for just that?

Can I have a senator? pullleeeeeze. I promise to feed it and walk it and... oh wait, I can't handle the doo doo a senator might well produce. drat.

I'll just have to admire em from afar.

I understand the Ca Senate is a good place to get a high.............

...a high..... ?? salary?

okay duck, I hereby appoint you to the senate. I'm feeling magnanimous.

(how's the syrup this year, BTW? Have any fossils ever been found in syrup? Syrup pits? I know they're found in gravy! )

Thanks but must refuse on moral gerunds. My mother always wanted me to have an honest joint job.

Syrup run was short and really sweet. Next year I'm hoping to bottle the sap. Coffee made with sap brings a whole new dimension to coffee. Good for the bones I've read...anion/cation thingy with the calcium (osteo?)

The discovery of a fossil pair in South Africa, reported by researchers Thursday... The fossils, discovered in 2008,...

I would think they could manipulate the data to support their claims in considerably less time.

It's sad, but two years is probably about average for the peer review process to arrive at a publication date.

If the end of the world had to be discovered by science, the published conclusions would be two years late.

And then we'd want someone to replicate it...