Re: The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric perspective

  Pandora wrote:

It's a rather strange, counterintuitive, result that the cladistically most basal hominin, Sahelanthropus, is morphometrically closer to Homo than to Australopithecus and the great apes.

It's not a science it's an art, an interpretation. Value
judgments.
Secondly, and let's be honest here, the fossil record sucks.
No, it doesn't "have gaps," it is a gap. It's a chasm, a
massive expanse of nothingness punctuated by the all too
rare pieces of bone.
Sahelanthropus is found in the wrong place. There is only the
one individual represented. There is no basis for any
determinations what so ever.
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