Hi Bob, Sunday, September 19, 2004, 9:26:30 PM, you wrote: [I have no internet connection at present and therefore the date on this e-mail will be different to...
Barnosky, A. D., Koch, P. L., Feranec, R. S., Wing, S. L. and Shabel, A. B. 2004. Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents....
Two archaeology courses to be run, - World Archaeology: from Sunday 31 October - Saturday 25 December 2004 - The Ancient Egyptian Past: from Sunday 31 October...
Homo erectus in America and other Sunday musings. Maria Discovery of Possible Homo Erectus Bones Keeps Alive the Debate Over Human Origins in Americas The...
More Sunday stuff. M ... Thu Sep 30, 2:13 PM ET Science - Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils from extinct dogs show why bigger is not better -- giant...
All: I'm a bit late; but for those that didn't read the articles in the file yet: there are new and better data on Istállóskö and Szeleta in the file. not...
Maria,Abeaut scenario.Hope that it turns out to be true,but will not hold my breathe,[bob]. maria guzman <mirror@...> wrote:Homo erectus in America and...
Maria: I"ve heard rumors from time to time in various sources, of H.erectus in the Americas. At the moment, and for the time being, I'm viewing all these...
Please excuse me for harping on this subject. I am still not conviced that H. erectus and H. ergaster were separate species. Nor am I convinced that the...
Hi Daniel, You are not alone in regard to the the erectus and ergaster types. Wolpoff and a number of others cite very similar sorts of modern variation to...
Daniel: Harp away. I myself am frankly puzzled by the proliferation of "species" in the human line. Yes, the evolutionary "tree" may be bushier than we...
... Tattersall, as many of you know, is a notorious "splitter". To him, "the more, the better". He sees "species" everywhere. Some of this may be legitimate,...
Enjoy (and stop scratching). maria Oct. 4, 2004 - A University of Utah study showing how lice evolved with the people they infested reveals that a now-extinct...
Maria: I'm not sure what to make of this particular "lousy" study; it would seem that about all you can say is, they're certainly trying, here. Anne G maria...
Hi Maria, Anne, There is another reading to this which is that the second type of head louse came from a single, long time isolated population of humans, which...
My own classification of fossil members of the genus Homo would run somewhat as follows Genus Homo: Species erectus Subspecies erectus (including Ngangdong) ...
Hi Daniel, ... Given their overlapping, how are you deciding? ... Mauritanicus???? ... I think you may need to re-look at this. Under your scheme you would ...
... wrote: (SNIP) ... would ... species in ... in ... apparently. ... Well I got the impression that they pegged it to erectus from the estimated date of...
... Atlanthropus mauritanicus (Arambourg 1954). Ternifine (or as now known Tighinef) Man from early Middle Pleistocene Algeria. Arambourg, C. & Hoffstetter,...
Correction: The species name Atlanthropus mauritanicus was attributed in: Arambourg, C. (1954). L'hominien fossile de Ternifine (Algerie). C.R. Acad. Sci....
Hi Dar, What I was cueing on was that the one type of louse was "found only in the Americas" but was pegged to actual diversion in Eurasia. It seems to me...
... only in ... seems ... is ... Yes, I see what you are saying. But that would imply a much earlier existence in the Western Hemisphere for the host (humans)...
Hi Daniel, The extent of your splitting seems to me to mandate that you also split the current human species, which is certainly not likely to fly very far....
Hi Dar, I realize that placing the divergence in the Americas would necessarily put humans here long before nearly (but not) all would do so. The lice were...
Daniel: I don't think neanderthalensis is a species, despite the loud and persistent efforts of some ini the paleoanthropology community to name it so. Anne G ...
Dar: Isn't that a bit out of date? I've never heard of mauritanicus before, either. And I know something of Arambourg's work. Anne g ... Atlanthropus...
Dale: YOur classification scheme probably works better with "the facts" than Daniels(IMO). The problem with all this "species splitting" that seems to be...