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Re: Who Killed the Australopithecines?
Mathew Shember (mathews@wv.mentorg.com)
27 Apr 1995 21:22:48 GMT
In article <bardD7J4vu.7nE@netcom.com>, bard@netcom.com (BARD) writes:
|> In article <3nfcfh$d7a@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
|> JoeBeaver <joebeaver@aol.com> wrote:
|> >BARD writes:
|> >
|> >> Let's back up a little here....
|> >
|> >Good idea.
|> >
|> >> We're talking about genocide of A. species by the next
|> >> "higher" order.
|> >
|> >> That would be H. habilis.
|> >
|> >Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have just made my life much easier.
|> >First, A. robustus appears to have outlasted H. habilis. Did they reach
|> >out of the grave (figuratively, of course) to kill A. robustus?
|>
|> The overall point here is that A. species was wiped out by
|> a higher order of primate. The act, not the actor is what
|> is at issue here.
|>
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|> >
|> >> I used H.sapiens in my example because of our documented history
|> >> of genocide not because I believe H.sapiens killed off A. species.
|> >
|> >And second, you did indeed use H. sapiens. Are you asking us to ASSUME
|> >that since H. sapiens has done something, so must H. habilis? That's like
|> >saying that since my cat likes to play with balls of yarn, so would his
|> >feline ancestors a couple million years ago.
|> >
|>
|> Indeed, and a very apt analogy that is!
|>
|>
|> >> BARD
|> >
|> >Finally, what we see here is an extended chain of maybes and might-bes.
|> >As you have FINALLY admitted elsewhere (a post responding to Phil
|> >Nichols), you have no evidence. That being the case, you should have
|> >posted your hypothesis in a different fashion initially. It would have
|> >been far more appropriate to present this idea as something to be
|> >considered, rather than as a polemic against the practice, methodology,
|> >and assumptions of paleoanthropology.
|> >
|> >Joe Beaver
|> >
|> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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|> Oh, and all along you thought I had EVIDENCE?
|>
|> Give me a break....
|>
|> And spare me your self-indulgent pabulum about the
|> approprite way to present an idea around here.
|>
|>
|> BARD
|>
|>
Bard,
Please restate your idea. I missed the original post.....
Matt
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