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Fossil men by kermit pattison5/19/2023 ![]() When it came time to organize all that, I just decided to let the story flow chronologically and wove in threads of backstory at appropriate points in the narrative. ![]() It involved complicated science such as geology, anatomy, and genetics, plus many backstory threads about characters, Ethiopian politics, or relations with the Afar clans in the fossil fields. For many research projects, the challenge is finding enough material, but this book had the opposite problem-a surplus of great stuff. You have to pack judiciously to keep the caravan moving. ![]() I might draft 10 pages on some topic, but often all that ended up being reduced to a few sentences. Each camel could only carry so much weight or else the pace would slow or that chapter would collapse under its own weight. The book had 33 chapters and I imagined them like a long camel train. Reading your book was like reading Bill Bryson in that you’re able to unlock science in a way that is accessible. ![]()
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