wazooloo 📤 5 years ago 2012-11-15
In this episode, we look at "Lucy" and the Neanderthals, and dive into the mailbag to answer lots of questions about airplanes in the ice, the Greenland ice cores and Carbon 14 dating of dinosaur bones!
RAAAAANDOM REFERENCES:
Lovejoy talking about knee and dremeling Lucy: see "In search of human origins," NOVA/PBS/WGBH, Episode 1, "The story of Lucy," 1994
Dikika's shoulder blades:
Who didn't have sex with the Neanderthals?
North African Populations Carry the Signature of Admixture with Neandertals. Sánchez-Quinto F, Botigué LR, Civit S, Arenas C, Ávila-Arcos MC, et al. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(10): e47765. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047765
Mega Movers "Extreme Aircraft Recovery" on itunes:
Number of Volcanic eruptions per year: Oh for crying out loud, google it! D'ya 'spect me to do everythin' for ya? :)
The extinction of the Wooly Mammoth: Was it a quick freeze?
Radiocarbon references from episode 7:
Radiocarbon in Coal & Diamonds: Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Volume II, Edited by Vardiman, Snelling, Chaffin, ICR & CRS publishers
A Case of "Missing" Decay - An analysis of C-14 Detected in Very Old Samples, Rick Sanders, CRSQ, Volume 47, Number 3, Winter 2011
Isotopic analysis of Fruitland Formation Coal Bed Carbon Dioxide and Methane, John R. Dougherty, CRSQ Volume 43, Number 2, September 2006
Pioneering 14C Dating of Wyoming Amber and Its Implications for a Young Earth and Global Catastrophism, Hugh R. Miller, J.R. Michaels, and Matt M. Miller, CRSQ, Volume 43, Number 2, September 2006
Philip J. Currie and Eva B. Koppelhus, 101 Questions about Dinosaurs, Dover Publications, 1996
Ice Core Papers and Analysis:
Sean Pitman's "Ancient Ice"
"The only similar diversity of mammals is on the Serengeti of East Africa" Mike Oard,
Greenland Ice Cores, John Woodmorappe,
Brock Lee's excellent rebuttal which deals with Carbon 14 in Dinosaur bones:
Ring Species? Ask John Mackay