It fills the gap in the fossil record there in Ethiopia.

It fills a little niche; nobody's ever written about this before in this way because it's a book about a serious subject but told with such a respectful, light touch. It's one of those books you sit down and read start to finish because you can't put it down. And after you finish, you say 'My aunt would like this, and so would my great-grandmother and my sister.' And so people will buy one, and then come back and buy 10.

What we find in the fossil record doesn't always represent what was going on. Prior to the pottery age, women in all societies are working in things that don't preserve very well, such as skins and braiding fiber.

We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.

It fills an obvious network gap for us in the Middle East and allows us to forge new direct relationships with major institutions in Kuwait.

As the fossil record becomes more complete, it sometimes provides the very intermediate forms the nonexistence of which the creationists were willing to predict. Even their favorite gaps are filling up, and the historical record of evolution becomes more compelling with each passing season.