Taxacom: hominid construction evidence

[Michael Heads]

Jared, I see your point, but I think this reflects a deeper issue than
sloppy wording or abbreviated reasoning:
'They used their intelligence, imagination, and skills to create something
they'd never seen before, something that had never previously existed'.
He is explicitly locating a centre of origin at the place and time of the
oldest known fossil - i.e., the methodology of  William Diller Matthew.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 6:20 AM Jared Bernard via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> True, but it may also be an innocent case of someone immersed in their
> field using shorthand, in this case meaning to say the finding predates the
> oldest-known H. sapiens fossil. I find researchers use this kind of
> shorthand all the time, leaving logical leaps in their papers -- if not
> properly edited ;^)
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