THE INSIDER: When bone of contention began
Humans began with Begun and his theory of our beginnings
Much has been made of new revelations about the origins of the human race after a fossilised jawbone, which was found by German soldiers in Greece in 1944, underwent new analysis recently. The testing shows the bone to be about 7-million years old and suggests our ancestors may have come from Southern Europe, not Africa. Little of this interests the Insider. What caught his eye is something academia and the media seem to have missed: the name of one of the paleobiologists keen to promote this theory is a David Begun. And there we have it. Humans began with Begun and his theory of our beginnings. QED. Quicker bucks and faster cars In 2012, Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten made a rather telling comment about the obscenity of footballers’ salaries. "We’re now watching 22 millionaires kicking a ball around. Not even for a laugh. They’re bored. They don’t play with passion," he told the Guardian. A study of how long it would take leading footballers to pay off their ludicrously expensi...
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