On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:04:13 -0800, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
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john.harshman@gmail.com>:
On 12/29/23 10:28 AM, JTEM is my hero wrote:
John Harshman wrote:
Incidentally, the whole harangue about calling humans "apes" is
misguided. It's not a comment on the morphology of the common ancestor.
It's all about phylogeny. Our closest living relatives are chimps, then
gorillas, then orangutans, than gibbons and siamangs. We are thus apes
You're doing it. You are literally doing it while claiming you are not.
So you can't tell the difference between a phylogenetic term and a >morphological one?
Rhetorical question?
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Bob C.
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the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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