Boxers, Bones & Bone Clones
By Max Musson: I have always found it ironic that journalists often end up as specialist feature writers for subjects that they have no real knowledge of or qualifications in, and I was reminded of this again this morning when I saw popular science articles on most of the newspaper websites today quoting Dr David Carrier of the University of Utah, who has done much research into vertebrate physical adaption for either fight or flight. In these articles…