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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 find | + | 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> |
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"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.[1]
The science magazine New Scientist reported the following:
| “ | "A five million-year-old piece of bone that was thought to be a collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley." - Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199[2] | ” |
Dr. Tim White, anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley likened the incident on par with the "Nebraska man" and "Piltdown Man" incidents.[3] Dr. White stated regarding the fossil find, "Seldom has a bone been hyped as much as this one."[4] Anthropologist Dr. Noel Boaz from New York University who made the original classification of the fossil has countered, "I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed." [5][6] Dr. Boaz described the fossil find and defended his stance regarding the fossil find in the journals Nature, the American Journal of Physcial Anthropology and Natural History. 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.[7] Dr. White stated that "to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S...curve, but it does not.[8] Dr. White also stated the blunder may force a rethinking of theories amoung evolutionary theorists on when the line of man's ancestors separated from that of apes.[9] 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.[10]
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."[11] According to Science News the events surrounding the fossil find has "sparked much discussion about anthropologists' overzealous pursuit of human ancestry".[12]
References
- ↑ W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)
- ↑ http://www.creationism.org/articles/quotes.htm
- ↑ Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199
- ↑ Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199
- ↑ Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199
- ↑ W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)
- ↑ W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)
- ↑ Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199
- ↑ Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199
- ↑ W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)
- ↑ Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199
- ↑ W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)