Re: Fossils fill gap in human lineage

David,
You're forgetting that we care about family, even great x n grandparents.
But unless molluscs are edible or give promise of a cure for some
disease, we don't much care. Fossil molluscs are good for neither. Even
those rather briefly dead are hardly interesting unless flash frozen.
Dave

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:03:40 -0500 "David Campbell"
<pleuronaia@gmail.com> writes:

Additional material, localities, and time slots for known species. I'd
put it about the eigth digit of pi-not much everyday practical need, in
that it doesn't provide any significant changes in the picture we already
had of human evolution, but useful details to the specialist who needs a
more exact answer.

It also goes to show the much higer level of publicity (both general
media and scientific journals) accorded to human fossils than to
mollusks. I'd have a hard time getting discovery of a known species in a
new time and location published anywhere, except maybe as an abstract.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"