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Is this the Footprint of the Missing Link?
🕑 Added 2024-05-18 18:00:08 +0000 UTCHello dear Patrons,
Kata has been working hard editing long into the early afternoon and so despite me spending an entire week fixing up my garden instead of helping her we are back with yet another episode from Crete:
European apes. Who knew?
As always, thank you all so much for the support. It really does mean everything to us.
Evan and Kata
Comments
larry82
Really interesting topic to me. Especially the dried out Mediterranean Ocean. Who knows, maybe the legends around Atlantis has a similar background?
Carl Fink
I have to expand on my previous comment. The Homininae includes humans, chimps and bonobos. Sometimes it includes gorillas. I have no idea why you thought it excluded them. The "Great Apes" roughly corresponds to the Hominidae, which also includes the orangutan. Of course, both groups also include extinct genera. Thus, you and Kata are great apes. Modern biology uses cladistics (literally "branching") to systematize living things. We and the chimps and bonobos are much more closely related to each other, than either of us is to a gorilla or orangutan. Since all classification must follow closest common ancestry, you can't make a "great apes" group that includes gorillas and chimps, and not us. That's like saying you and your first cousin are related, but not you and your sister. (Biologists refer to the human lineage and the chimp/bonobo lineage as "sister groups".) We are great apes. You know, there are former biology teachers [bows] who might be willing to proofread your scripts. If you asked, you could probably get an actual biologist, even.
Carl Fink
"European apes. Who knew?" [raises hand] Keep in mind that H. sapiens is a type of ape.
Starrylock
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