Patrick Barkham writing in the Guardian has a nice story on the schale pit in Germany where the much hyped Ida was found; above all it emphasizes the wide range of important fossils found there.
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Patrick Barkham writing in the Guardian has a nice story on the schale pit in Germany where the much hyped Ida was found; above all it emphasizes the wide range of important fossils found there.
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If your philosophy of [scientific] history claims that the sequence should have been A→B→C, and it is C→A→B, then your philosophy of history is wrong. You have to take the data of history seriously.
John S. Wilkins 30th August 2009
Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration”