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New Fossil of Early Hominid Precursor
sdr writes: "For decades scientists have worked to connect the dots between dozens of fossil discoveries in East and southern Africa in hopes of constructing an accurate picture of human origins. Now, a new find in western Central Africa suggests the picture may be radically different than widely assumed. Check National Geographic for the story."
In other news, researchers at MIT are now looking at ways to etch binary data on the inside of human skulls, claiming that human skull bone is a more reliable and longer-lived storage medium than most others available.
This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."