Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / March 2007

New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America
COLLEGE STATION -- The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found ...

I am new to this group, but have loved dinosaurs all of my life.  I have a
most fundamental question, which I hope will receive good feedback in lieu
of facetious or snide remarks.  My question, which seems simple at first is
as follows :  What scientific proof exists which ...

I want to be fossilized when I die, and ideally dug up and put on
display in a museum in 100 million years time.
How should I achieve this?

One important old question of mine below copied (some writing errors
corrected):
What is the exact age (with +- error limits) of the Bulawayan
Stromatolite UCLA-Bul-7=P.P.R.G.253 ?

I posted this to sci.bio.evolution when I should have posted it here. Sorry
about that. Written by Dan Jones.
Mixing with the ancestors
AFTER the boy died, he was buried in a shallow grave along with some pierced

Assumptions are that 'fitter' species have
evolved but can not also be assumed that
less 'fitter' species have devolved from
the 'fitter' by degeneration so that the

Greetings. I'm a lawyer at work on a most unlawyerly novel,  and I
need some help.
Suppose a bone fossil reliably dated to 1.5 mya. Suppose DNA extracted
from bone.  (I know that's a stretch, but suppose.) Suppose the DNA is