My Father Used To Say That, Through

Paleoanthropology Is Not A Science That Ends With The Discovery Of A Bone. One Has To Have The Original To Work With. It Is A Life-long Task.

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.

The Language Of Art Is Powerful To Those Who Understand It, And Puzzling To Those Who Do Not. What We Do Know Is That Here Was The Modern Human Mind At Work, Spinning Symbolism And Abstraction In A Way That Only Homo Sapiens Is Capable Of Doing.

Humans Become Human Through Intense Learning Not Just Of Survival Skills But Of Customs And Social Mores, Kinship And Social Laws-that Is, Culture.

When Out Fossil Hunting, It Is Very Easy To Forget That Rather Than Telling You How The Creatures Lived, The Remains You Find Indicate Only Where They Became Fossilized.