Hominids, Dinosaurs, Big Bang
Fred Heeren has traveled to observatories and labs, and through underwater passages
and fossil sites in deserts around the world to write about origins:
Hominids, Dinosaurs,
Big Bang
Fred Heeren has traveled to observatories and labs, and through underwater passages and fossil sites in deserts around the world to write about origins:
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of the universe,
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of the earliest, smallest, and largest dinosaurs, and
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of the earliest chordates, earliest mammals, earliest hominids and the
last Homo sapiens to breed with Neanderthals.
Telling the stories of the great discoveries—
and of the scientists who made them
Heeren has written about evolution and more for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and McGraw Hill’s textbook Physical Anthropology.
Telling the stories of the great discoveries—
and of the scientists who made them
Heeren has written about evolution and more for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and McGraw Hill’s textbook Physical Anthropology.
Samples of Fred Heeren's Published Work
Rise of the Titans
The sauropods were the biggest creatures ever to walk the planet. But the keys to their success emerged in…
Finding Fossils Faster
SAVING HISTORY: Paleoanthropologists Meave Leakey (left) and daughter, Louise (right), examine a fossil…
Caveful of Clues about Early Humans
“Field research” projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get…
Was the First Craniate1 on the Road to Cognition?
Chinese fossil discoveries of the earliest known craniates (from the early Cambrian period) have led…
A Little Fish Challenges a Giant of Science
Taiwanese biologist Chia-Wei Li has been working with paleontologist Jun-Yuan Chen…
Religion Has Nothing to Fear from NASA
This Saturday, NASA will launch a small spacecraft in hope of getting answers to…
Rebuilding Greensburg Green
Everyone assumed this Kansas town was destined to fade away. What would it take…
The First Sea Monster
Researchers have announced the discovery of the first sea monster (artist’s impression above)—an…
How Giants Conquered the Earth
How did animals the size of a goat evolve into the largest creatures on Earth? The…
Cave Diving for Europe’s Past
Four years ago, Romanian explorer Stefan Milota made an amazing discovery in…
Paleontologic Agitprop?
Before smiling officials escorted an international group of foreign scientists to…
Making the Sale
It was that Presbyterian biologist who almost blew the sale. And not only a sale to the Presbyterians, but…
The Rebuilder’s Tale
I wanted to make a difference. After earning my Ph.D. in engineering in 2002 at Baghdad University…
Home Alone in the Universe?
As I first learned at a dinner table surrounded by new acquaintances, questioning someone’s belief in extraterrestrial intelligence…