Re: The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric perspective

  Pandora wrote:

 John Harshman:

To be fair, if those are Bayesian posteriors, many of them are pretty bad. But what is JTEM's hypothesis?

 That australopithecines are the ancestors of the African apes (Pan and Gorilla) as suggested in this publication (see fig.3 on page 17):

That would be the good Doctor's position. I speak of models, not
specific species. The good Doctor's model is quite good, and I do
favor it, though I'm a great deal less linear than even him.

And apparently also that the human clade originated in South-Africa.

Lol!  You're an idiot!
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