Hi Gerry, It really doesn't matter, does it? Not nearly so much as whether Neanderthals were in some way ancestral to modern humans, and if so how much. In a...
Hi Gerry, John, Polygamy is related to percent of males (or in polyandry the percent of females) that contribute to the next generation. Intense polygamy as...
... Thanks to both of you, and Happy New Year. BTW - I am a little surprised that Oreo's lumbar + sacral vertebrae count is 11 while for others it is 10, but...
... I am happy to consider the Neanderthals as a different species, since I see any genetic contribution from it as being relatively minor. In any case, I am...
... MW: Oreopithecus has the same number of lumbar vertebrae as Homo and Australopithecus. And the same number of sacral vertebrae as Pan and Gorilla. Marcel...
... MW: There's nothing to resolve here. No population of Homo has ever been geographically isolated long enough from eachother for genetic speciation to...
... Are you claiming that we have not evolved in the last two million years? I would think that a look at the fossil record shows quite the oppposite to be...
... MW: Of course, there is evidence of morphological change from early Homo to the most recent members of Homo-- especially in the expansion of the cerebrum. ...
... I don't think so. It's pretty unlikely there will be more hybrid finds, simply because in a low-level hybridization scenario (like I'm sure this is),...
New discoveries will only occur if one believes that there are additional finds (I for one do not). Neanderthal is but one tiny piece in the entire global...
Hi Dale, I must be missing something. Which paleoanthropologists advocate Neanderthals being ancestral to modern humans? Oh, I get it. Because you are using...
The possibility also exists that one reason for a relatively minor genetic contribution from Neanderthal is because basically Neanderthal and Homo sapiens...
You never anwered the main thrust that I presented: is Tattersall's display of AMH from the same time period as Neanderthal or are we viewing remains that...
... I think I understand you now. I don't know, but it does not matter. The contemporaneous AMH remains are the Cro-Magnons, and they share our morphology....
... finds, simply ... is), hybrids ... generations, ... "Genetics" only tells part of the story. It's an important one, but only part of the story. ... ...
Jack: The mosaic of features in ... along than ... science always ... grab our ... Well, Tattersall and some others just see "a chunky Gravettian child" in the...
Edward" ... since ... a ... story ... not ... There's no question that Neandertals *did* have a different "morph" than exists in any population today. But a...
But of course it matters! How can anyone do justice to the archaeological record when 30-35,000 years has been neglected? IMO, the skeletal rendition of...
... archaeological record when 30-35,000 years has been neglected? IMO, the skeletal rendition of Neanderthal that Tattersall provides is of an ancient time...
Yes. I saw *that* in your post (which was added after I had written mine). Gerry ... From: Jack Kilmon To: palanthsci@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January...
....it abundantly clear(if you read the article... It has become abundantly clear to me, over a period of many years, that some unfortunate people suffer from...
... used in ... are not ... we are ... remains ... by ... You are right of course. I think everyone would agree with what you say. OTOH, there is a line (which...
... traits ... Oreo's ... and ... why ... Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification, but then again: Anyway who argues that this or that skeleton is an...
... You can't do that! Under the internationally agreed upon rules of taxonomy, when there is a merger of taxonomic groups, the older designation is kept and ...
... From: <ems57@...> To: <palanthsci@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: [palanthsci] Re: NYTimes.com Article: A Rebuilt...
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