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  • The "missing link"? Leg and arm bones from Sahelanthropus tchadensis su

    From erik simpson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 08:43:20 2022
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04901-z

    This isn't earth-shaking since bepedalism was already strongly suggested from post-cranial bones, but the discussed remains here are arm and leg bones themselves. Estimated age ~7 MYA is in the neighborhood of the human-chimp divergence.

    If you can't see the Nature paper, here it is:

    https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03037386/file/383956_0_merged_1598881798.pdf

    Vive la France!

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  • From JTEM@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Thu Aug 25 22:48:10 2022
    erik simpson wrote:

    Estimated age ~7 MYA is in the neighborhood of the human-chimp divergence.

    Lol! You're hysterical!

    You need to pretend that the LCA was on the order of 7 million years ago!

    You're a laughing stock!




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