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[[Image:Dolphin.jpg|thumb|200px|right|"[["Flipperithecus]]" was the name anthropologist Dr. Tim White gave to the "humanoid species" arising from a fossil find that is most likely part of a dolphin's rib. According to ''Science News'' the events surrounding the fossil find has "sparked much discussion about anthropologists' overzealous pursuit of human ancestry."]]

[[Image:Dolphin.jpg|thumb|200px|right|"[["Flipperithecus]]" was the name anthropologist Dr. Tim White gave to the "humanoid species" arising from a fossil find that is most likely part of a dolphin's rib.]]

"[[Flipperithecus]]" was the name of the "humanoid species" arising from a fossil find that is most likely part of dolphin's rib. The name "Flipperithecus" was given by anthropologist Dr. Tim White and reported in [[Science News]].<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref>

"[[Flipperithecus]]" was the name of the "humanoid species" arising from a fossil find that is most likely part of dolphin's rib. The name "Flipperithecus" was given by anthropologist Dr. Tim White and reported in [[Science News]].<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref>

However, at a meeting of physical anthropologist his fellow anthropologist were skeptical of the find some stating that at first glance the bone looks nothing like a collar bone.<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref> Dr. White stated that "to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S...curve, but it does not.<ref>Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref> Dr. White also stated the blunder may force a rethinking of theories amoung [[theory of evolution|evolutionary]] theorists on when the line of man's ancestors separated from that of apes.<ref>Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref> [[Johns Hopkins University]] anthropologist Alan Walker stated that there is a long history of misinterpreting various bones as humanoid clavicles and that it is a amorphous bone and scientist should be very judicious in interpreting it.<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref>  

However, at a meeting of physical anthropologist his fellow anthropologist were skeptical of the find some stating that at first glance the bone looks nothing like a collar bone.<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref> Dr. White stated that "to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S...curve, but it does not.<ref>Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref> Dr. White also stated the blunder may force a rethinking of theories amoung [[theory of evolution|evolutionary]] theorists on when the line of man's ancestors separated from that of apes.<ref>Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref> [[Johns Hopkins University]] anthropologist Alan Walker stated that there is a long history of misinterpreting various bones as humanoid clavicles and that it is a amorphous bone and scientist should be very judicious in interpreting it.<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref>  

Dr. White added "The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone."<ref>Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref>  According to ''[[Science News]]'' the events surrounding the fossil find has "sparked much discussion about anthropologists' overzealous pursuit of human ancestry".<ref>W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref>   

Dr. White added "The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone."<ref>Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref>   

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