So I bolt out of the house, grab the Washington Post in its plastic sleeve from off the lawn, swing into my car and head for the Metro to go to work on Thursday ( Read more... )

There was some discussion of people hands and how they differed from our primate cousins' hands. (Was it suegypt?) I found this article in Science (Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution, Science, 1748 (2001); Stanley H. Ambrose, et al.

"Oldowan" refers to the style of tools found 5 to 2.5 million years ago, in this excerpt. Apparently, our hands and ( Read more... )