Gee, That Guy Looks Familiar

A number of readers were happy to find similarities between our early ancestor Homo erectus ((March 14)) and the Homo sapiens of today. Margaret Segal of Bolingbrook, Illinois, thought our cover subject might have changed his name. She notes, "He looks alarmingly like a blind date I once had." Seymour Mandel of Chicago is positive: "This is the same guy who hit me up for some spare change downtown last week." Roberta Jaeger of St. Simons Island, Georgia, comments, "He's the spitting image of a fine man who once worked as my cook in Indonesia." Roberto Llamas of Miami thinks the...

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