Showing posts with label paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paleontology. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Magnificent France

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The Unesco world heritage list includes 39 French sites. They are presented here by a series of excellent photos within a French-language ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Simplified story of our origins

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Creationists and folk who believe in the truth of Genesis are trying constantly to invent arguments designed to reveal that Darwinian evolut...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Old family portrait

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In my blog post of 22 October 2011 entitled What science is saying [ display ], I spoke of a fabulous book for young and old alike: The Mag...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What, no rock 'n' roll in the caves?

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Svante Pääbo , 57, is a Swedish geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. In my blog post of 2...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Baby mammoth

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Last night on French TV, I watched a fascinating 95-minute documentary about the discovery in Siberia, in 2007, of an intact carcass of a ba...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Famous book for sale

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The problem, if I don't manage to sell this book—which I bought out in Australia in 1961, shortly before leaving for Europe—is that I mi...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Prehistoric encounters

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Well before my time, the high school in my native town of Grafton (New South Wales, Australia) was associated with two youths who went on to...
Monday, August 2, 2010

Much older than we had imagined

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Several Australians have become notorious for their Creationist beliefs. First and foremost, of course, there's the Queenslander Ken Ham...