[Taxacom] hominid evidence

[John Grehan]

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> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Frederick W. Schueler
not just one short DNA sequence that shows that
> Rabbits are the sister group of Turtles.

Amazing that such things get published.

John Grehan

> 
> fred.
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
> >> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Frederick W. Schueler
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:27 AM
> >> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] hominid evidence
> >>
> >> John Grehan wrote:
> >>> The great thing about publicity is that it can force people to
> > respond
> >>> when they otherwise whould not have to. The MSNBC article shows
that
> > at
> >>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31624027/ns/technology_and_science
> >>>
> >>> "The DNA evidence <http://www.livescience.com/dna/>  is so
strongly
> >>> against it," said Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links
Center
> > at
> >>> the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in
> >>> Atlanta. "It's a leftover from the days that bones ruled, but they
> > don't
> >>> anymore."
> >> * I think what this debate lacks is a pattern, or track, into which
> > the
> >> Pan/Homo/Pongo genetics/morphology disparity can be fit.
> >>
> >> Surely, Taxacomers, are there other cases where genetic and
> >> morphological phylogenies are puzzlingly disparate. If these were
to
> > be
> >> sent to John, he/we could see if there's a pattern into which the
> >> hominid situation fits. It would be indecently un-Copernican to
assert
> >> that there's a unique disparity between genetics and morphology in
our
> >> own recent ancestry.
> >>
> >> fred.
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