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From: Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr>
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Subject: Re: The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric
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Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 13:17:56 +0200
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On 4.8.2024. 10:38, Pandora wrote:
> Op 04-08-2024 om 00:17 schreef JTEM:
>>   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.
> 
> Actually, there's more than one individual of this taxon, from three 
> different localities (TM 247, TM 266 and TM 292). This additional 
> material was announced in Nature in 2005:
> 
> https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3716603
> 
> Not too far from where another hominin taxon, Australopithecus 
> bahrelghazali, was discovered in 1995.
> 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/378273a0
> 
> If you think that's the wrong place you must have some concept of what 
> is the right place. Where would that be?

		Actually, it isn't in the wrong place. Lake Megachad is at the end of 
Cameroon rift. This is very similar to lake Victoria and East-African rift.