Re: apiths = chimp & gorilla relatives (Re: Savanna nonsense

Marc Verhaegen wrote:
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> "Pauline M Ross" <pmross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > And we now have a fossil chimp turning up in exactly the time and place
> predicted by Marc's theory :-)
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> What they've found IMO is a late almost-chimp fossil, but IMO we might have
> had Pan & Gorilla fossils all the time.
> PAs *want* to find human ancestors. If we belived them, they've found 1000s
> of so-called "human ancestors" & (almost) 0 chimp & gorilla ancestors.
> Nonsense: there's no good evidence to believe that apiths were closer to
> Homo than to P or G. Apiths had NO uniquely human features: no ext.nose, no
> basicranial flexion, no dentitional reduction, no loss of climbing features,
> no very long legs, no humanlike iliac blade orientation, no very long legs,

Sigh.

http://www.anthro4n6.net/lucy/pelvis3.gif

> nothing. OTOH apiths were evolving KWing features (boisei more than in

WHY would an obligate biped go back on all fours?

> anamensis or Lucy). Their so-called "human" features are simply primitively
> hominid (hominid = H+P+G, vs. pongid=Pongo), eg, thick enamel (found in most
> Miocene great apes), low ilia (as in monkeys & humans, IOW apes in parallel
> lengthened iliac blade length, see Schultz), but apith iliac blade
> orientation was apelike. I would not be surprised that if reliable DNA can

Not true.

http://www.anthro4n6.net/lucy/pelvis3.gif

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