Paleoanthropologists

The Counterintuitive Evolutionary Lesson of Nutcracker Man (Wired News)

1 May 2008

The big, burly teeth of an early branch on the human family tree turn out to have mostly nibbled on fruit, highlighting a lesson for biologists that the meaning of an adaptation isn't always obvious.

Famous fossil defines a professor's life (USA Today)

30 Apr 2008

The man who found Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, is never far from her. Just steps from Donald Johanson's office at Arizona State University is a tiny skeleton made of plastic casts of the 3.2 million-year-old fossil.

Fossil defines professor's life (The Arizona Republic)

22 Apr 2008

The ASU scientist who discovered Lucy cannot escape her shadow. Nor does he want to.