Greetings--
Don't check your calendar. It is, indeed, Saturday, not Friday. As I was getting ready to put together this newsletter yesterday, I got a call from an editor who needed a story done fast. Everything had to go by the wayside, including Friday's Elk.
As I've written about human prehistory in recent years, I've become aware of a pair of 9,500-year-old skeletons stuck in a legal limbo. For my New York Times column this week, I report on a Supreme Court decision that now transfers the bones to a California Indian tribe.
February 11: "Is There A Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?" MIT Communication Forum Details here.
June 23-25: International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Plenary Lecture. Durham North Carolina. Here's the meeting site.
July 31: I'll be giving the keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Savannah
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Best wishes, Carl
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