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To: TNdandelion
My physical anthropology teacher in college started her course by labeling every idea about the origin of man and the earth as a "creation myth."

When I taught physical, lo these many years ago, I started by showing the class the casts of modern human, Australopithecus and chimp innominates (one half of the pelvis). I asked students to divide the three specimens into two groups and state why they made the choice they did. All grouped human and Australopithecus together, with chimp as different, and based their choices on shape (morphology). Human and Australopithecus differ mainly in size, while both differ considerably from chimp in shape.

A simple but powerful lesson in how paleontologists and physical anthropologists work.

7 posted on 11/17/2005 10:32:28 PM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Coyoteman
Human and Australopithecus differ mainly in size

That's just microevolution

9 posted on 11/17/2005 10:56:50 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Paging Nehemiah Scudder:the Crazy Years are peaking. America is ready for you.)
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