{"id":712212,"date":"2010-04-08T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:48:09","slug":"confusing-cavemen-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712212","title":{"rendered":"Confusing Cavemen | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/04\/sediba.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2680\" title=\"sediba\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/04\/sediba.jpg?resize=220%2C146\" alt=\"sediba\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\"\/><\/a>In <em>Slate<\/em> today,<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2250212\/\"> I take a look<\/a> at the newly unveiled fossils of a strange new hominin, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/extra\/sediba\/\"><em>Australopithecus sediba<\/em><\/a>. I try to separate the hype from the significance of this long-legged, long-armed, tiny-brained beast. My conclusion: let&#8217;s not turn this into another <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/05\/19\/darwinius-it-delivers-a-pizza-and-it-lengthens-and-it-strengthens-and-it-finds-that-slipper-thats-been-at-large-under-the-chaise-lounge-for-several-weeks\/\"><em>Darwinius<\/em> affair!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2250212\/\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photo by Brett Eloff courtesy of Lee Berger and University of Witwatersrand]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7p4Xv3vBIOja4q-Q-mp1dJVWTHI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7p4Xv3vBIOja4q-Q-mp1dJVWTHI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7p4Xv3vBIOja4q-Q-mp1dJVWTHI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7p4Xv3vBIOja4q-Q-mp1dJVWTHI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/EnQWSak3QcE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/ihktzWYmyLY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Slate today, I take a look at the newly unveiled fossils of a strange new hominin, Australopithecus sediba. I try to separate the hype from the significance of this long-legged, long-armed, tiny-brained beast. My conclusion: let&#8217;s not turn this into another Darwinius affair! Check it out. [Photo by Brett Eloff courtesy of Lee Berger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zhi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}