Flipperpithecus
"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 journal 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] Dr. Noel Boaz from New York University has countered, "I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed." [5] 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.[6] Dr. White stated that "to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S...curve, but it does not.[7] Dr. White also stated the blunder may force a "rethink of theories" amoung evolutionary theorists on when the line of man's ancestors separated from that of apes.[8]
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."[9]According to Science News the find of Dr. Boaz has "sparked much discussion about anthropologists' overzealous pursuit of human ancestory."[10] Dr. White has dubbed the "humanoid species" arising from the fossil find "Flipperithecus".[11]
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)
- ↑ 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)