Re: HUMAN PENISES, WAS RE

Alex Duncan (aduncan@mail.utexas.edu)
11 Jul 1995 22:32:54 GMT

In article <9507101504.0L6QFBI@sstar.com> , ann.nunn@sstar.com writes:

>All this yip-yapping about australopithecine penis sizes got me so
>worked up and curious that I went to the library and got me a picture
>book by a Dr. Donald C. Johanson (Is he a real anthropologist? The book
>claims that he's "the foremost anthropologist," but I figured y'all
>would know.) and anyway, in this book, *Journey from the Dawn*, which is
>all about the daily life of an austrolopithecine family, catching fish
>and stealing ostrich eggs and all, you know, this anthropologist shows
>lots of very realistic pictures of something called a. afarensis, and I
>can tell you for a fact that the adult males have very teeny weeny
>penes, I mean not like any I ever saw, while the females have pendulous
>boobs, so that should settle it, and y'all don't have to argue any more!

Nobody, including Don Johanson, has any idea what australopithecine penes
or breasts looked like.

Alex Duncan
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1086
512-471-4206
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu