[HN Gopher] Evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neanderta...
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       Evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child (2020)
        
       Author : tokai
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-06-08 12:28 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nature.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | Compelling evidence that the Neanderthal dug graves and held
       | ceremonial burials.
       | 
       | Unrelated, but again I wish the science community would put the
       | "conclusion" heading right after the "abstract". It's what
       | everyone jumps to, and it would probably even enable more
       | consumption by the lay public. You only read the body of the
       | paper after reading the conclusion anyway.
        
         | bosswipe wrote:
         | The abstract normally contains a brief conclusion.
         | 
         | "Our results show that a pit was dug in a sterile sediment
         | layer and the corpse of a two-year-old child was laid there."
        
         | washadjeffmad wrote:
         | The reason conclusions reside at the end is that they draw from
         | prior content.
         | 
         | If the lay-public cannot follow the linear steps and context of
         | research, then how will they understand the conclusion? It
         | would be no better than an authoritative appeal. "I called this
         | research and formatted it like so, nevermind the methods or
         | data, therefore you should accept this conclusion" is about as
         | far from the intent of science as one gets.
        
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