ksagnostic

Hey Ergaster, just to keep my players straight, is Senut on the team that found "Orrin"?

BTW, love your handle.

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Dr.GH

The closer we get to finding the common ancestor, the more
difficult it will be to correctly assign it to a taxon. The comments by Dr Brigitte Senut, of
the Natural History Museum in Paris, France, that S. tchadensis looked to her like an
ancient female gorilla, sound to me like sour gapes. Senut, and her collegue Martin
Pickford announced their newly discovered fossil, Orrorin tugenensislast year. It
reminds me of Mark McGwire bad mouthing Barry Bonds last year.

Pickford, by the way, is intensely political and has a reputation for attacking anyone he
sees as competition.

I should have added a link to
<a href="http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/" target="_blank">http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/</a>

They have an interesting discussion of some issues related to the discovery and analysis of Orrorin tugenensis .

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Valentine Pontifex

Here is an interesting quote from this article:
This little quote shows the utter unfamiliarity of the writer with what he is writing about. Lucy was never the oldest hominid fossil. If one wants to be generous and suppose that "Lucy" was used to refer to all of A. afarensis and not just to the single fossil skeleton than it has not been true for almost a decade and this has been fairly well-publicized.