[Taxacom] hominid challenge

[Jason Mate]

Not rock solid, just waiting (still) for the articles. Send them, then we can email till our quota is filled. 
I am all for 3 emails per day, although I´ll stick with 2 emails.

Best

Jason

> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:48:00 -0400
> From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] hominid challenge
> 
> Here's a challenge to all list members who are rock solid on the
> chimpanzee theory of human origin, especially any who teach that
> doctrine to students. 
> 
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> 
> What evidence do supporters of the chimpanzee theory present for the
> inclusion of early fossil hominids (australopiths) within a
> human-chimpanzee clade? This is not a question about characters
> supporting the monophyly of humans and fossil hominids, but characters
> that support a human-fossil hominid-chimpanzee clade. How many
> characters and what are they? 
> 
>  
> 
> This is also not a question about molecular evidence since molecular
> evidence cannot apply to most of the hominid fossil evidence. I look
> forward to seeing that definitive evidence on this list, especially from
> those who are so cavalier about dismissing the orangutan evidence.
> 
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> 
> John Grehan
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> Dr. John R. Grehan
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