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From: sss3@ukc.ac.uk (S.S.Sturrock)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Paranormal phenomena and evolution
Message-ID: <6763@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 10:28:51 GMT
References: <104@tdatirv.UUCP> <6747@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> <106@tdatirv.UUCP>
Reply-To: sss3@ukc.ac.uk (S.S.Sturrock)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <106@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
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>Did I ever say otherwise.  I was only saying that A. afarensis probably
>*looked* very much like the chimp (particularly the pigmy chimpanzee).
>I was *not* trying to claim common ancestry.  I was claiming, and still
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Re mention of Cladistics:
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>Gads, I hope not!  I am getting sick enough of the cladistic assumptions
>in the research papers on dinosaurs!
>By the way, my main area of biological interest is paleontological.  My
>two specialites (right now) are dinosaurs and advanced primates.

Well, at least we agree on something :-)

By the way, I assume you realise that it has long been accepted that
Australopithicines are not our ancestors.  They may have shared a common
ancestor with us (and perhaps the chimp) but are not on the direct
evolutionary line that led to Homo sapiens sapiens.  Oh well.

Primate evolution is a rather difficult subject due to the sparse
fossil record, man does not die in very good places!

Dinosaurs too?  Well, there we share a common interest, I can't believe
that they can possibly be applying cladistics to their evolution, eek,
what more can I say, Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!! maybe!

Toodle Pip,


Shane Sturrock, Biol Lab.  Canterbury, Great Britain.