re: #21 SixDegrees

As someone who learned anthropology from one of Millard Wolpoff’s students, it’s nice to see him at least partially vindicated by this result. His theories of human origins, though sound and well supported, have taken a vicious beating at the hands of the anthropological mainstream over the last few years.

Nasty bunch, anthropologists.

Ahem. BACK WHEN I WAS AN ANTHRO MAJOR, the “killed-off or screwed-in” ideas were rocking back and forth. The radical Screwers insisted most Neantderthals would pass unnoticed in the NFL. The tide turned against the “screwed-in” crowd in the 70s and 80s, until the widespread use of cheap genetic analysis.

Yes, Anthros are nasty, but there is nothing sweeter than a coed gradschool summer Archaeo dig.