My colleague Shane Bauer (pictured), along with his fianceé Sarah Shourd and their friend Josh Fattal, have been held illegally in an Iranian prison for 370 days as I write this. As the website freethehikers.org says, the news reports about their

Darwinius masillae, an Eocene primate fossil. Photo courtesy PLoS One
[UPDATE: Carl Zimmer deflates some of the hype as well.]
Crazy busy today — first actual paid work in months — but I couldn’t let this announcement go uncommented. What a
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