Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Leakey , Richard E. and Lewin , Roger (1993-10-01), Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human, Anchor, Retrieved on 2012-06-11Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science Memes
11 JUN 2012
The Archeologist's Search Image
A fossil hunter needs sharp eyes and a keen search image, a mental template that subconsciously evaluates everything he sees in his search for telltale clues. A kind of mental radar works even if he isn't concentrating hard. A fossil mollusk expert has a mollusk search image. A fossil antelope expert has an antelope search image. ... Yet even when one has a good internal radar, the search is incredibly more difficult than it sounds. Not only are fossils often the same color as the rocks among...Folksonomies: fossils archeology
Folksonomies: fossils archeology
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notesVaries from hunter to hunter, but must be able to find camouflaged bones that might be fragmented into many pieces.
11 JUN 2012
We Have Hunter-Gatherer Brains
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty. 1 notes
notesAttempting to work in a modern world where some hoard their comforts and other go without.
