Laelaps has a very nice essay that ranges from the number of ribs humans have, the book of Genesis, creationism, and the variety of stories told about human evolution from the nineteenth century to now. Go read it. It's one of the few blog posts in which you'll read of petrified testicles...
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Thank you for the link, John! I initially intended to only review a few papers, but I got sucked in (my wife knew that I would be lost to blogging for most of the day). I've still got to add a few illustrations later today, but I am glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
Haven't been reading my wife's blog, eh?
Brian's blog looks very interesting Thanks for the pointer.
Just breezing through the article, the one thing that struck me is how much the Neandertal rendering from Colbert's Evolution of the Verterbrates looks like Benjamin Disraeli.