Re: DISCOVER/Neanderthal/Homo Sap.

H. M. Hubey (hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu)
5 Sep 1995 12:25:34 -0400

phall@primenet.com (Peggy Hall) writes:

>H. M. Hubey (hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu) wrote:

>: >It is fairly well-established that Neanderthals did not evolve into
>: >modern humans.

>: Where is that established. How about Trinkhous and Woloff[sp?]?

>What bones ? Where ? How about the dentition ?

So now we seem to have discovered the "supermethod", the
"mother of all methods", the method to override all methods,
the thing by which anthropology hangs.

OK, what seems to be so special about teeth?

And how and why are people so sure that teeth have some
special properties which allow the unconditional and
incontrovertible establishment of specieshood?

It seems like more bones to me.

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Regards, Mark



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