Re: questions from first read of Lucy

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In article <kmkniff1.57.304E15FB@omni.voicenet.com>,
kevin m. kniffin <kmkniff1@omni.voicenet.com> wrote:
>finally read lucy and have some q's...

>2) dart's hypothesis that early humanoid killers were right-handed makes me
>wonder about the evolution of "handedness." do other animals show a
>preference for either hand/foot. i would imagine it is a result of the brain
>splitting in half, but want to know more...

I have heard that other animals can have a particular handedness, but
that there is no other species in which one 'hand' is much more common
than the other.

>3) have any fossil chimps been found since Lucy was written? is there a
>general reason for this?

I think I have heard of a fragment or two that *might* be fossil chimps,
but nothing good enough to be firmly identified as such.

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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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