5/9/2023 0 Comments Fossil Men by Kermit PattisonPattison deftly weaves strands of science, sociology and political science into a compelling tale that stretches over decades. Meanwhile, teams at the excavation sites in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia often found themselves in the midst of real wars, as the country suffered through political upheavals as well as the ancient enmities of competing rural tribes. White’s discovery threatened to upend beliefs about evolution that generations of academics had built their careers upon, and many weren’t ready to cede turf easily. White’s grudges and battles with his peers are a recurring theme throughout the book, as he angrily fights off skeptics in academic wars waged at the highest levels of the international scientific establishment. Believed to be the earliest human ancestor yet discovered, she was dug from the ground by a team led by Tim White, a larger-than-life personality whose energy at excavating and classifying bones is matched only by his fervor for disagreeing disagreeably with other scientists. Ardi - short for Ardipithecus ramidus - is the bony remains of a woman more than 4.4 million years old.
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