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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Man and Ape
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 17:48:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 17:48:13 1984
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> [Ethan Vishniac]
> Thus human beings might be older than the earliest human skeletons, but
> there is no getting around the hypothesis that we are descended from
> the great explosive radiation of the great apes without abandoning
> evolution.

From the number of times I've read about creationists being derided
for talking about man as though he were descended from apes, I'm
surprised to see you make the statement.  Standard doctrine is that
we have a *common* ancestor.
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Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois