To: Alter Kaker
If I'm not mistaken, Johanson has since admitted "Lucy" was likely a male chimp. I have no problem with it being an extinct species, but if the discoverer admitted it, we should stop using it a distinct species.
18 posted on
03/26/2006 8:34:53 PM PST by
Tim Long
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To: Tim Long
If I'm not mistaken, Johanson has since admitted "Lucy" was likely a male chimp. I have no problem with it being an extinct species, but if the discoverer admitted it, we should stop using it a distinct species.I'm confident you're mistaken, but I'd be curious to see a cite for that, if you have one. Lucy's textbook A. afarensis.
19 posted on
03/26/2006 9:45:50 PM PST by
Alter Kaker
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