71.   It was only recently, said Sorkadh, that their bones were unearthed, prompting his parents to return briefly to Albania to bury them in proper graves.

72.   Its first metacarpal bone was narrow and apelike, incapable of supporting the enhanced thumb musculature required for toolmaking.

73.   Its tiny bones are a challenge to both cook and eater.

74.   Just why bone is so forgiving, however, has never been fully understood.

75.   Many a bone has been broken, and many a skull cracked, and not a few lives have been lost in rock climbing.

76.   Many bones are shattered, and it will require weeks of painstaking work to assemble the fragile pieces.

77.   Meanwhile, the bones are at the Burke Museum in Seattle.

78.   Muscle attachment points are sometimes obvious as scars on fossils, and the relationship between muscles and bone is fairly consistent for most vertebrates.

79.   My mentor, Molly Giles, said the bones were there, I just had to reassemble them in a new way.

80.   Neither buys into the notion that brittle bones are simply a product of aging.