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The perversion of paleontology by apartheid’s advocates still lingers: Children gather around a fossil skull at a South African museum. EPA/Jon Hrusa In 1925, Jan Smuts was both a prominent politician and an advocate for science. Just after the first of his two terms as prime minister of the Union of South Africa, Smuts served as president of the South African Association for … [Read more...] about The perversion of paleontology by apartheid’s advocates still lingers | The Conversation