EurekaAlert! posted, "Tiny juvenile dinosaur fossil sheds light on evolution of plant eaters" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/uocm-tjd102008.php.
Fig. 1 Newly described fossils shed light on the evolution of flatfish eyes.
With the running out of the fossil fuels; lighting utilization will seriously contribute to the worldwide energy problem in the approaching future.
The Times article and many others are based on the press release from the Turkana Basin Institute (http://www.turkanabasin.org/discovery/knmer60000/), "New Kenyan Fossils Shed Light on Early Human Evolution".
Tattersall notes that some fossils shedding light on human evolution had been discovered at the time of Darwin's writing but that the area was tainted by fraud and controversy.
Life probably began between about 3 and 3.5 Gy ago, with the earlier date more likely if the stromatolites, filamentous putative fossils and light carbon isotope levels in that period are mostly biogenic.
People still rely mostly on fossil fuels to light their homes and run their cars, despite the environmental problems that flow from burning coal, oil and natural gas.
And just as whale oil for home lighting was supplanted by kerosene and then by the electric light, fossil fuels are about to be replaced by renewables, Mr. Lovins predicts.
