New orangutan article

[John Grehan]

For those interested the following popular science article was recently
published:

 

Small, M.F. 2005. Relative obscurity. Cosmos 2 (2 pp.)

 

A pdf copy can be accessed at
http://www.sciencebuff.org/humans_and_orangutan.php

 

It provides a very succinct outline of the basic issues and some nice
quotes by the opposition: 

Maryellen Ruvolo "Many scientists have just spent millions of dollars of
U.S. taxpayers money, and countless hours, determining the DNA sequence
of the chimpanzee genome and analyzing it, because the chimpanzees are
the closest evolutionary relatives to humans" 

and

"How Jeff Schwartz can get away with maintaining his incorrect position
in this day and age of ample molecular evidence is inconceivable". 

If nothing else it's a nice example of how science actually works rather
than the objective fantasy that undergrad students and the public are so
often fed. I guess the message is that us US taxpayers out there are
committed to the chimpanzee theory because we have paid so much for it!

 

John Grehan

 

Dr. John R. Grehan

Director of Science and Collections

Buffalo Museum of Science1020 Humboldt Parkway

Buffalo, NY 14211-1193

email: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org

Phone: (716) 896-5200 ext 372

 

Panbiogeography

http://www.sciencebuff.org/biogeography_and_evolutionary_biology.php

Ghost moth research

http://www.sciencebuff.org/systematics_and_evolution_of_hepialdiae.php

Human evolution and the great apes

http://www.sciencebuff.org/human_origin_and_the_great_apes.php