UCD researchers along with others have timed the appearance of ancestral ARHGAP11B at about 3 million years. Which imparted smarter brains, but not bigger ones. Extant ARHGAP11B imparts larger and sma

There is only one Pan tooth, a lower molar, which is quite diagnostic as Pan (it is even closer to bonobos than common chimps). It is from Ngorora. Does not matter that they are using casts for compar

Obvious American fundamentalist propaganda. The dating of Turkana boy is by stratigraphic context and biostratigraphy. How mineralized bone is not related to its age (unless you are an ignorant about

Of course heretics fabricated these teeth to support their heretical beliefs. And everyone who saw the originals or found them is part of the massive conspiracy. ______________________________________

He is showing a new species of Simiolis from the same location. Not the Pan teeth. Yet again demonstrating remarkable ignorance of how to conduct paleontological research. For which he compensates by

Bullying jerk. Big man hiding behind your computer screen, or likely abusing women or children, not men. Your ignorance does not justify cyber bullying of people less ignorant than you are. Sent from

It has been a common fantasy that only African great apes knuckle walk. All extant great apes knuckle walk at times, though not every individual ever knuckle walks. There are a number of potential exp

Human genetics fantasies are so dominant they are required to write “Pan like” to get published. Of course they are Pan and pretty modern already at 12.5 million years. They could have Pan teeth and t

The entire concept if a linear progression in Old World monkeys in terms of locomotion, ending in modern human locomotion, is entirely incorrect. Not only were early Miocene great ape like, or great a

If the proposed phylogenetic relationships within extant hominids are incorrect, then this incorrect fantasy construct does not imply all, or even most, human ancestors ever knuckle walked. If there w

Again in 2008 a number of fantasies were accepted as axioms. IF Pan and Homo share a “common ancestor” with each other that is more recent than any other great ape diverged, then there is still a simp

In 2009 when this paper was published, traits by introgression were still verboten in the West. Thus if we did not come from knuckle walkers, then knuckle walking traits in australopiths did not ever

In 2000, when this paper was published, traits obtained in hominids by introgressions (or HGT) was a verboten idea in Western paleoanthropology. So naturally they assumed if any australopiths knuckle

Marine sediments form in all depths of sea water. From a thin film such as in a calm lagoon to deep water. I worked in interdigitated marine and terrestrial sediments with months in the field in those

Right away when I first saw this photo I noticed that at the actual local, these are at the very top of the beds. So I knew people would be trying to claim they are much younger sediments deposited lo

In many types of dating you can follow the beds to adjacent places that have been dated. This is what they did, and what they mean by an adjacent basin. Of course ichnofossils including tracks are fou

The paleoenvironment at Trachilos is well understand. It was a lagoon beach bar, and not subaqueous when the prints were made. As I recall they were dated by forams above and below the tracks stratigr

Humans incisors have multiple functions. Two of which are grasping and scraping. Before we ate meat our incisors still scraped such as removing plant material from harder cores or surfaces, and scrapi

In the Western USA deserts ground sloths often held a desert (xeric) niche eating Joshua trees when other forage was not abundant. Joshua trees are very slow growing. The niche is not filled with the

Identical triplets vary a lot, often 15 even 20 percent as to what regions their ancestry is from. Sent from Mail for Windows