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Features of the Grecian ape raise questions about early hominins (johnhawks.net)
40 points by diodorus on May 28, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



"An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth." -Stephen Jay Gould


This is the same thing I've been saying for years, "Paleoanthropology must move past the point where a mandibular fragment is accepted as sufficient evidence."


It has, according to another part of the article commenting on ardi?




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