Re: paleoanthropology  Glenn Morton ( Wed, 16 Jul 1997 21:19:09
-0500  At 11:12 AM 7/16/97 -0500, Paul Arveson wrote: >My dear
friend Glenn is trying to make me defend my somewhat tongue-in-
cheek >appeal for restraint in paleoanthropological theorizing
by turning my own >guns around. OK, I'll try. As someone,
somewhere, sometime said, "The best defence is a good offense."
:-) Hope this didn't bother you, but I didn't think it would.
>I can't say things like that for the other sciences. I think
biology >is just a teenager. Psychology and sociology are in
diapers. Chemistry, >in the sense of materials science, is a
youth. Earth crustal geology is >perhaps middle-aged.
Paleoanthropology is a little kid trying to answer big
>questions. We need to be patient and let the kid grow. Overall,
I probably couldn't disagree with your assessment of the various
fields. I work in geophysics doing structural geology. Middle
Age is probably about right for crustal geology. I doubt that
anyone will ever be able to catch up to