Re: Rift Valley Research

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In article <3vp7us$9j7@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
alex duncan <aduncan@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

>In article <3vn9rq$5b7@lehua.ilhawaii.net> Cam, cam@ilhawaii.net writes:
>
>>I believe in the early days of Rift Valley digs that rival archeologists
>>used to hire gangs of thugs to bust up each others camps and destroy
>>each others digs and finds so they could be first back to London and
>>civilization to claim all the glory.
>
>I've heard about something like this happening w/ American paleontolgists
>early this century (Cope & Osborn, I think).

Edward Drinker Cope and Charles Othniel Marsh, late last century.

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Jim (Chris) Foley,                 jim.foley@symbios.com

Assoc. Prof. of Omphalic Envy      Research interest:

Department of Anthropology         Primitive hominids

University of Ediacara             (Australopithecus creationistii)

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