Re: GIGANTOPITHECUS

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In article <47omk4$hlo@rebecca.albany.edu>, <cc3265@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU> wrote:

>Well, their dates roughly overlap, and they were both in China, but, no,
>I never heard of any hard evidence for any deeper kind of "coexistence."
>I would be surprised if there were any evidence for this -- after all (to
>draw a rough modern-day analogy), would you want to co-habit with a gorilla?
>I think it's much more likely that they avoided each other -- unless one
>found the other good to eat!
> I'd be interested in hearing from someone with more information on these
>sites, if they exist.

Ciochon, Olson and James, in their book "Other Origins: ..." seemed
virtually certain that Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus must have
encountered each other in China. I thought, though I'm less certain
about this, that they also had some fossil evidence of coexistence.

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Jim (Chris) Foley,                 jim.foley@symbios.com

Assoc. Prof. of Omphalic Envy      Research interest:

Department of Anthropology         Primitive hominids

University of Ediacara             (Australopithecus creationistii)

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