Comments on: Bones of Turkana: Meave and Richard Leakey on human ancestors and the Leakey legacy http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 18:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: hassenpfeffer http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1425639 hassenpfeffer Wed, 16 May 2012 16:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1425639 Maggie, did you ask them what they thought about the series finale of the BSG remake? ;-) Maggie, did you ask them what they thought about the series finale of the BSG remake? ;-)

]]> By: zarray http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1425537 zarray Wed, 16 May 2012 15:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1425537 Imagining someone talking paleo terms in a baw-ston accent gives me the giggles. Imagining someone talking paleo terms in a baw-ston accent gives me the giggles.

]]> By: zarray http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1425531 zarray Wed, 16 May 2012 15:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1425531 I was going to say: "Like the Kennedys? Full of high profile tragic deaths and a shady past?" I was going to say: “Like the Kennedys? Full of high profile tragic deaths and a shady past?”

]]> By: Doug Lucchetti http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1424470 Doug Lucchetti Tue, 15 May 2012 14:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1424470 Wonderful interview.  Wonderful interview. 

]]> By: s2redux http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1424431 s2redux Tue, 15 May 2012 14:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1424431 Second photo, ca. 1987, is one of the first promo shots of Ushindi, the Insult Comic Kenyan Mountain Hound. Second photo, ca. 1987, is one of the first promo shots of Ushindi, the Insult Comic Kenyan Mountain Hound.

]]> By: CCinBmore http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1424401 CCinBmore Tue, 15 May 2012 13:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1424401 What a family legacy. This engineer chose one anthropology class to fulfill a non-core requirement in college and was seriously tempted to change course altogether. I Occasionally feel that I may have chosen poorly, particularly given my love of the African continent. Oh, to be required to travel in Africa for work! Also, came to say "Oldupai" was misspelled but, knowing MKB is such an exhaustive researcher, I checked first. Turns out everything I've apparently ever read, from college anthro textbooks to National Geographic Magazine has been spelling it wrong. According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_Gorge , who lists their article under the commonly accepted yet incorrect spelling, "Oldupai" is the official name, adopted in 2005. Thanks Maggie! What a family legacy. This engineer chose one anthropology class to fulfill a non-core requirement in college and was seriously tempted to change course altogether. I Occasionally feel that I may have chosen poorly, particularly given my love of the African continent. Oh, to be required to travel in Africa for work!

Also, came to say “Oldupai” was misspelled but, knowing MKB is such an exhaustive researcher, I checked first. Turns out everything I’ve apparently ever read, from college anthro textbooks to National Geographic Magazine has been spelling it wrong. According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_Gorge , who lists their article under the commonly accepted yet incorrect spelling, “Oldupai” is the official name, adopted in 2005.

Thanks Maggie!

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1424374 niktemadur Tue, 15 May 2012 13:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1424374 The Leakey Legacy:  A shocking story of nepotism in the African Rift. There's also a subtext there: - But daddy, I want a career in aerospace engineering or medical research! - Nonsense!  You'll be a paleoanthropologist like me and my parents before me.  Now I want that australopithecine skeleton spanking clean before the NatGeo crew gets here or there'll be no supper for you, young lady. The Leakey Legacy:  A shocking story of nepotism in the African Rift.

There’s also a subtext there:
- But daddy, I want a career in aerospace engineering or medical research!
- Nonsense!  You’ll be a paleoanthropologist like me and my parents before me.  Now I want that australopithecine skeleton spanking clean before the NatGeo crew gets here or there’ll be no supper for you, young lady.

]]> By: Michael Anderson http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/bones-of-turkana-meave-and-ri.html#comment-1424372 Michael Anderson Tue, 15 May 2012 12:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=160775#comment-1424372 "The Leakey family is like the Kennedys, but for paleoanthropology instead of politics." Is this a hint of an upcoming expose of Leakey scandals comparable to those of the Kennedy clan?  “The Leakey family is like the Kennedys, but for paleoanthropology instead of politics.”

Is this a hint of an upcoming expose of Leakey scandals comparable to those of the Kennedy clan? 

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