Re: New Species Of Great Ape?

From: Philip Deitiker (Donevenask_at_worlnet.att.net)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:10:45 GMT

johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) says in
news:1glbxvp.13do4x4xahq3pN%johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au:

> I spoke to Colin about this when it first came up a year or
> so ago. He is certain they are just a large common chimp,
> not a new species. He went there to see them in situ - form
> memory he didn't find a live one, but there was a corpse he
> examined.

This was discussed before here, it turns out the mtDNA agrees
with the fact it is a chimp.

You know if some one said that they spotted a dog that weighed
200 lbs or a chihuahua, no one just up to claim new species. You
can't make a judgement about a species based solely on one form
of morphological variation. 

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Philip
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