Believe it or not, I once had a cow-orker say to me, "You know this kind of stuff, where can I rent or buy a human skeleton?" She was right, upon reflection I did know. When we called, the shop asked, "Does it have to be real or will a teaching replica suffice? They're a lot cheaper."Boing-Boing's Cory Doctorow links today to a Spring St. store that goes one further, it sells reproductions of the fossil remains of early hominids in both teaching quality and museum quality. Want to contemplate Lucy in your own home? How about gazing deep into the eye-sockets of that old fraud, the Piltdown man? Now you can.
