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Re: Orangs as Closest
Bob Keeter (b_keeter@owens.ridgecrest.ca.is)
Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:41:52 GMT
mof@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu (Matthew O. Fraser) wrote:
>Hey All,
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>Anyone up on the hypothesis that Orangs are humans' closest extant relative?
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>I did my undergraduate training with Jeffrey Schwartz at Pitt, and he
>authored a book on the subject, but it was a couple of years after I
>graduated.
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>How do you folks feel about it?
>
Absolutely! It was that set of Devonian footprints, exactly matching
a modern orang's, bipedally running up to the edge of a cliff and
leaping boldly into the lake for liesurely swim that gave it all away!
8-)))))) Hehehe
bk
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