![]() ![]() Or we look at them as stories that we slot into the history of science. "They're either evidence for evolution," she says, "and we get really into the nitty-gritty scientific details of it. "A lot of the time, I think we look at fossils, particularly fossil hominids, and we see them as one thing," says Pyne as we talk inside one of modern humans' best creations: a coffeehouse that also serves beer and wine. Note the exact phrasing and understand that what's being considered here isn't (or isn't only) the evolution of humans, but also the cultural evolution of the seven fossils post-discovery. Note: She'll be presenting the book at BookPeople on Tue., Aug. She knows them up-close and personal, these seven famous fossils that mark points in human evolution, and she knows what's happened to them since they were discovered, and her new book Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils is the multipartite story of precisely that. ![]() Wait, let's be clear: The skeletons don't belong to Pyne personally they belong to all of us, to the world and its billions of humans, although of course the actual bones and fragments are in the possession of whichever organization is currently studying or displaying them.īut Pyne, an Austin-based science historian and paleoanthropologist, knows these skeletons. ![]()
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