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3rd Annual Human Evolution Symposium PART TWO "The First Humans." Oct. 3, 2006. Stony Brook University. Convened by Richard Leakey. 1. "Where does the genus Homo begin, and How Would We Know?" - Bernard Wood, George Washington University 2. Panel Discussion, moderated by John Fleagle, Stony Brook University Participants: - Chris Dean, University College London - John Fleagle, Stony Brook University - William Jungers, Stony Brook University - Bill Kimbal, Arizona State University - Marta Lahr, Cambridge University - G. Philip Rightmire, SUNY-Binghamton 3. "Landscape Perspectives on the Archaeology and Palaeoecology of Early Homo in the Paeleo-Olduvai Basin" - Robert Blumenschine, Rutgers University

Field work in Panama - March 2011 (University of Regina) This video is of field work that University of Regina Geology professor Maria Velez did in collaboration with the paleoecology group from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - Panama - and another colleague, Jaime Escobar, from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota (March 2011). Their goal was to extract sediment cores from different places in the coast and inland Panama to ***yze and reconstruct the paleoecological and palaeoenvironmental history of different places and ecosystems in Panama. The video takes place in Bocas del Toro, nearby the Cricamola river. In this location they extracted 4 m of sediment using the corer in the video that extracts 50 cm increments of sediments. The deeeper they got the more people they needed to push and pull the corer. The students in the video are either working on a Masters' or undergraduate thesis on palaeoecology. Video and text submitted by professor Velez

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Feminists are Wild SubHuman Animals, Tools of Satan, Stupid, A video for my friend Tony (TheProdigyTony48219) which proves that feminism is evil almost as evil as pizza eating lizards. Also Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marie Curie, Mary Shelley and hostess fruit pies appear for no particular reason. If you watch now you can enjoy a JezuzFreek gay joke (as if gay joke and JezuzFreek wasn't redundant) at no additional cost. In honor of my good friend Tony all responses to this video will be answered using Tony Logic: Elizabeth Cady Stanton evil perm hair Mary Shelley Frankenstein Fruit Pie JezuzFreek777 TheTruthTony TheLegendTony gay jokes These are two of the recent articles on Paleo-Tony (Pederpres fineyae) Clack, JA, SM Finney 2005 "Pederpes f inneyae, an articulated tetrapod from the Tournaisian of Western Scotland " Journal of Systematic Paleontology 2(4):311-346 Clack, Jennifer A. 2006 "The Emergence of Early Tetrapods" Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 232:167 -- 189 Professor Jenny Clack The Encyclopedia of Anthropology was accessed via a Gale Subscription database. 2005 Patricia B. Christian "Feminism" in Encyclopedia of Anthropology. edited by M James Birx, Sage Publications Stanton's Solitude of Self is widely available lcweb2.loc.gov (images and other feminist writings) www.wfu.edu (text version) There is a lot of material on Frankenstein which I did not use 2002 Lederer, Susan E, Elizabeth Fee, and Patrica Tuohy Frankenstein Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: An ...

Late Weaning Harmed Woolly Mammoths New research from The Univ. of Western Ontario leads investigators to believe that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle during the Pleistocene Epoch (approx. 150000 to 40000 years ago) began weaning infants up to three years later than modern day African elephants because of prolonged hours of darkness. This adapted nursing pattern could have contributed to the prehistoric elephant's eventual extinction. The findings were published recently in the journal, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Source: Univ. of Western Ontario

5. Climate Change -- isn't it natural? More urban myths about climate change are busted as I look at the Earth's climate over the last 500 million years. What causes it to change? Since carbon dioxide was much higher in the past, why do climatologists say higher CO2 now poses a problem? And of course there's the familiar myth that CO2 can't influence temperatures because the climate was much colder in the past when carbon dioxide levels were much higher. REFERENCES "CO2-forced climate thresholds during the Phanerozoic" -- DL Royer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Dec 2006 "Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate?" -- N. Shaviv and J. Veizer, GSA Today, 2003 "Bathymetric and isotopic evidence for a short-lived late Ordovician glaciation in a greenhouse period" -- Brenchley et al, Geology; April 1994 "Reconciling Late Ordovician (440 Ma) glaciation with very high (14X) CO2 levels" -- CROWLEY TJ ; BAUM SK, Journal of Geophysical Research 1995 "An atmospheric pCO2 threshold for glaciation in the Late Ordovician" -- MT Gibbs et. al, Geology; May 1997 "A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician." -- LR Kump et al, Palaeoclimatology alaeogeography Palaeoecology 1999 "Long-lived glaciation in the Late Ordovician? Isotopic and se- quence-stratigraphic evidence from western Laurentia" -- MR Saltzman,SA Young, Geology; February 2005 Graph at 2:28 showing increasing solar output taken from James Imamura at the University of Oregon Dept of Physics, jersey.uoregon.edu "Solar ...

So You Think Missing Links Don't Exist? Episode 1: Nautiloids This is a New Series I am working on that will introduce people to fossils in the fossil record. Here's the Script: Hi Everyone. This is King Mike, and Welcome to my new series called So You Think Missing Links Dont Exist. Thats the name of my show. In this series, we are going to explore transitional fossils in the fossil record that span millions and millions of years in the making. While were at it, were going to have some fun and anyone any age could watch this show to learn about many fossils. This first episode, we will look at some funny looking creatures classified as Nautiloids. For starters, they are large and diverse group of marine cephalopods. They belong to the subclass Nautiloidea that began in the late Cambrian Period. Today, they are represented by the living Nautilus. The Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, where they constituted the main predatory animals, and developed an extraordinary diversity of shell shapes and forms. As of today, some 2500 species of fossil nautiloids are known, but only a handful of species have survived. Nautiloids are often found as fossils in early Paleozoic rocks. The shells of fossil nautiloids may be either straight (such as orthoconic as in Orthoceras and Rayonnoceras), curved (for exampled Cytroceras), coiled (for example Cenoceras), or a helical coil (as in Loeierosceras). The shells are formed of aragonite, although the cameral deposits may consist of primary calcite. (1) The rocks of the Ordovician ...