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Debate Over a Skull [NYT Letter to Ed.]
NY Times: Letters ^
| 6-22-03
| C. LORING BRACE
Posted on 06/22/2003 5:01:21 AM PDT by Pharmboy
To the Editor:
"The Beginning of Modern Humans" (editorial, June 15) states that a newly discovered Ethiopian skull more than 150,000 years old is "recognizably modern to paleoanthropologists but not to most of the rest of us." It does not look recognizably modern to this paleoanthropologist, and it is a much less probable candidate for being the ancestor of the modern European human than the European Neanderthal is.
I have superimposed the outlines of the crania being compared. Statistical analysis of a battery of measurements shows that the European Neanderthal is more closely related to modern Europeans than to anyone else in the world. This can only be because there is an actual genetic relationship.
That splendid Ethiopian specimen is a good candidate for being an ancestor of Ethiopians, but not Europeans.
Ann Arbor, Mich., June 16, 2003 The writer is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthropology; archaeology; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; humanevolution; multiregionalism; neandertal; outofafrica; skull
A Wolpoff colleague speaks out against the PC-anthro crowd and the Paper of [an awful] Record deigns to publish it--on Sunday no less!
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:01:21 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: PatrickHenry; thefactor; blam; aculeus; jennyp
Multiregional Ping
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:02:42 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
To: Pharmboy
My wife would call my jutting brow and large, thick skull prima facie evidence of direct descent from Neanderthals.
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posted on
06/22/2003 6:57:39 AM PDT
by
eno_
To: eno_
Your wife knows best. However,in addition to your wife, many have said that in fact you do look neanderthoid! I'm Cro Magnon.
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posted on
06/22/2003 7:04:54 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(Further, the statement assumed)
To: Pharmboy
"A Wolpoff colleague speaks out against the PC-anthro crowd and the Paper of [an awful] Record deigns to publish it--on Sunday no less!" Multiregionalists rule. Wolpoff is my guy.
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:03:27 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:09:41 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Thanks for the link...I knew we would agree on this.
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:10:14 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:53:53 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
You are good! I guess I have lost too many neurons over the years to remember, but that blast from the past was a good 'un.
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posted on
06/22/2003 6:23:51 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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