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... fossil primate skeletons known previously, which include Darwinius from Messel in Germany and Notharctus from the Bridger Basin in ... monkeys, apes and humans, the researchers say, while Darwinius and Notharctus are adapiform primates that are early relatives ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2013 - 12:46pm - 0 attachments

Many people, perhaps most, hate the idea that life might depend on chance processes. It is a human tendency to search for meaning, and what could be more meaningful than the belief that our lives have a greater purpose, that all life in fact is guided ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Apr 30 2009 - 9:45am - 0 attachments

... which is really exciting (though not as much as Darwinius , which was " like a meteor hitting the Earth " or whatever). ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 1 2009 - 3:13pm - 0 attachments

Once upon a time, journals were horribly expensive to produce and to read.  Your research might only be read by 200 people but those 200 people knew the work was vetted by reviewers.   It had a quality standard. Open access publishing is ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2011 - 11:05am - 0 attachments

... you should be outrageous in your self-promotion, like Darwinius with the television special and a marketing blitz prepared for when ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 21 2010 - 11:08am - 0 attachments

... from Henry Gee at Nature because the naming of Darwinius masillae was done without being placed in a print publication - ... for not technically satisfying the naming conventions for Darwinius, I'll take every sucker punch i can get Science, like anything else, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 12 2010 - 8:04pm - 0 attachments

... hitting the Earth or whatever , right?  Nope, that was Darwinius , also called Ida (see Science by PR Blitz ).  This one got ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 27 2010 - 5:02pm - 0 attachments

It's been 9 months since I read Autism's False Prophets and participated in a discussion over at Science Blogs Book Club . The good news is that there is increased awareness of the overwhelming scientific evidence refuting a ...

Article - John Dennehy - Mar 31 2010 - 4:26pm - 0 attachments

the 47-million-year-old Darwinius masillae fossil that was celebrated last year as a so-called 'missing ... published in the Journal of Human Evolution that Darwinius masillae is not a haplorhine primate like humans, apes and monkeys, ... 2009 research claimed. They also note that the article on Darwinius published last year ignores two decades of published research showing ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2010 - 1:32pm - 0 attachments

... and significance of the work involved. I didn't see the Darwinius special, but even the previews had me wincing. Mike Rowe is ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 12 2009 - 9:28pm - 0 attachments