April 21st, 2013
ERxcellent Survey for the General Reader
April 21, 2013Masters of the Planet
by Ian Tattersall
Palgrave MacMillan 2012
266 pp., illistrations, $17.64 from Amazon
Reviewed by Jay Greene
April 14th, 2013
Controversial Puzzle Remains
April 14, 2013A puzzling set of fossils, discovered near Johannesburg in 2008 and surrounded by controversy from the first, are back in the news and both the puzzle and the controversy are no nearer resolution. Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand and his son uncovered the first of these fossils.