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To: bvw
... it might well be able to line up a collection of modern human skulls that look almost exactly like those in the pictures linked to by Coyoteman. ...

It might. I'd be especially interested in the ones with differently-shaped jaws. In particular, apes have more-or less parallel teeth along the side, whereas people have a more parabola-shaped jaw. Discussed here.

480 posted on 12/16/2005 10:58:26 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
Science, at least decent basic "science", would at least have some presentation of the number of artifacts, their distributions -- charts and graphs of measurable characteristics of those artifacts indicating the distribution of values, contrasting modern human distributions with the claimant sets.

What is the variance in jaw curvature among modern humans? Amoungst chimps and apes? What is the variance in those claimed artifacts of proto-human jaws?

The site you linked to, as best I can tell, does NOT give numbers, numbers of artifacts, numbers measured of jaw widths, curvatures etc. Almost no numbers at all. Where is Lord Kelvin when you need him? Wasn't it Lord Kelvin who said "no science without numbers!"? That site you linked to, iirc, makes a claim of a novel human species or subspecies based on only one artifact -- one teeny toe bone! Wow! Such wonderful *science*!

517 posted on 12/18/2005 4:43:17 PM PST by bvw
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