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Re: gigantopithecus blacki....stance
debra mckay (debra.mckay@utoronto.ca)
Sun, 24 Nov 1996 03:39:54 GMT
dhwang@students.uiuc.edu (daniel hwang) wrote:
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>what is the current consensus on G. blacki's posture and locomotion
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>among paleoanthropologists?
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>does the consensus
>suggest it was bipedal, as grover krantz argued
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>or does the conensus argue
>that it was quadriped, like all modern great apes
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>the latter is how i usually see it depicted
>in other origins, discover, etc.
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>thanks
The general opinion, so far as I know it, is that Giganto
was some sort of quadruped, probably terrestrial, judging from
their size. They appear to be a close relative of Asian
_Sivapithecus_, which was quadruped itself.
Grover Krantz's position is...um...marginal.
Deb
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