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Ritual Disposal Of The Dead Speaks Clearly Of An Awareness Of Death, And Thus An Awareness Of Self.

Climate Change: We Have Never Faced A More Critical Time On Our Planet

Scientific Innovations Continually Provide Us With New Means Of Analyzing The Finds.

It Has Taken Biologists Some 230 Years To Identify And Describe Three Quarters Of A Million Insects; If There Are Indeed At Least Thirty Million, As Erwin (terry Erwin, The Smithsonian Institute) Estimates, Then, Working As They Have In The Past, Insect Taxonomists Have Ten Thousand Years Of Employment Ahead Of Them. Ghilean Prance, Director Of The Botanical Gardens In Kew, Estimates That A Complete List Of Plants In The Americas Would Occupy Taxonomists For Four Centuries, Again Working At Historical Rates.

Echoing The Criticism Made Of His Father's Habilis Skulls, He Added That Lucy's Skull Was So Incomplete That Most Of It Was 'imagination Made Of Plaster Of Paris', Thus Making It Impossible To Draw Any Firm Conclusion About What Species She Belonged To.