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...nged up the soil's minerals over the eons. Shin's petrified wood journey began in a less dramatic fashion, a f...cool in argon to room temperature. Presto. Instant petrified wood, the silica taking up permanent residence with the carbon left in the cellulose to form a new s...Hominid fossils from Ethiopia link ape-men to more distant human ancestors
...abundance of monkeys, kudus and other mammals, and petrified wood found both at Aramis and Asa Issie shows that a closed, wooded habitat type persisted over a long period in this part of the Afar and was favored by early hominids between 4 and 6 million years ago," said Giday WoldeGabriel of Los Alamos Nationa...