I may be a little late to this, but better late than never. Laelaps has penned one of those rarities - an exceptionally detailed historical summary of the way people's understanding of human origins changed over time. Bookmark and read when you have time to really focus.
More like this
A paper just got published in PLoS - Biology - "A Human Taste for Rarity Spells Disaster for Endangered Species" - describes how high monetary value of rare species leads to a vicious spiral in which each capture reduces the remaining number of individuals at the same time as increasing the monet
Triggered by the Heartland Billboard debacle Michael Fumento has written
A friend of mine told me this story: As a special forces soldier, a Green Beret, he was alone and traveling through a dense area of jungle in or near Viet Nam during the 1960s.
I am a longtime fan of ThingsBreak though his/her posts are a bit of a rarity these days. The latest post is a very good one on the recent debut of Nate Silver's 538 blog
Thank you for the link and the compliments! At the urging of some of my readers, I'm going to try and write up a review paper on this very subject in the coming weeks, although I still have plenty of research to do (as long as the post is there's a LOT I left out).
I'll also have another post coming up in the near future about how we've understood dinosaurs through the ages, and I'll probably eventually do one on sharks & sea monsters as well. I certainly haven't expected all the positive reviews and support, and I thank you for the link and kind words.