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Front page story in Plain Dealer highlights fossil discovery involving School of Medicine anatomy professor

The front page of the April 14, 2006, edition of the Plain Dealer carries a story about Scott Simpson’s involvement with a fossil find shedding light on human evolutionary history. Simpson is an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Below is an excerpt from and a link to the newspaper story. More details also may be found on the medical school’s Web site in the news archives of March 24, 2006, or directly at this link: http://cerebrum.case.edu/newsrelease/simpson2.htm.

“Case researchers hope fossil fills gap in human ancestry”

The Plain Dealer, April 14, 2006

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1145003743175980.xml&coll=2

Resting in camp after a long day of fossil-hunting in the parched African bush, Cleveland paleontologist Scott Simpson wondered what was keeping his colleagues. Off in the distance, Simpson heard a clamor. It was indistinct at first, but as the source moved closer, the Case Western Reserve University researcher began to pick out sounds not of trouble, but of joy: the blare of horns, rhythmic claps, singing. Finally, the tardy caravan roared into camp and one of the workers jumped from a truck, pointed his AK-47 at the sky and let loose a celebratory blast.

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