Tag: Smithsonian Institution
No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong
Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.
Tomorrow: Webinar with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims
Prepared to be entertained — and inspired — by the man who describes his life as “one continuous science fair project.”
Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More
Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal,” perhaps Morganucodon.
Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong
Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.