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To: JohnnyM
"Im sure there are differences in certain organs and the like, but I couldn't tell which ones and how so."

Then you should consult a zoologist on just how different they are before just being sure of it.

"Our brains are different sizes."

Once again, you can tell the size of an animals brain by examining the skull which contains it. This is even more rudimentary than determining muscle structure.

"Our nose and ears are different."

No so much.



The ears are almost exactly like ours, aside from being a little larger in proportion to the skull- but this is only consistant with most of a human's facial features as compared to a chimp that can be seen from the skull. The nose appears to be flatter, but that is mostly because the chimp's skull protrudes much more in that area.

(By the way: here is a picture of a chimp skull. Do you really think you would find it difficult to differentiate between it and a human skull? Notice how small the brain casing is.)


266 posted on 11/10/2005 3:34:06 PM PST by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: Sofa King
once again, this whole conversation has been in regard to Ichy's post on classifying hominid skulls and obviously there is difficulty in doing so, or there would be no issue. We are not talking about modern chimps and humans.

To somehow say those skulls were ape,human, or somewhere in between is probably not possible given only the skull and no supporting skeleton or other info.

JM
305 posted on 11/10/2005 4:37:44 PM PST by JohnnyM
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