Re: Casts of fossils
Phil Nicholls (pn8886@csc.albany.edu)
12 Apr 1995 11:22:46 GMT
In article <3mg1bf$cti@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
IraWalters <irawalters@aol.com> wrote:
>>Just a moment. WHAT Gigantopithecus skull? I'm aware of >some mandibles
>>and isolated teeth, but not any cranial materials. R. Holloway
>
>Let me clarify. You're right, there is no cranial material that has been
>definitely identified as Gigantopithicus (though there is a recently
>discovered Javan fossil that "might" be a temporal bone, but know one can
>be sure). The Giganto skull I referred to is a cranial reconstruction by
>Dr. Grover Krantz using one of the four jaws, and assuming bipedality and
>an ape-sized brain (appropriately scaled to body size). Of course because
>of the limited amount of fossil material available, the reconstruction is
>highly speculative.
>
>Ira Walters
>Washington State University
>IraWalters@aol.com
Especially the part about bipedalism.
Isn't this the same Grover Krantz who thinks bigfoot is actually
a surviving gigantopithecus?
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Phil Nicholls (pn8886@thor.albany.edu)
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