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@animerobin01 @RokoMijic @ZaidJilani Not a single argument made on behalf of Lewontin by you throughout the entirety of the reply chain that you started in response to a post referencing Lewontin's fallacy. Incredible.

[Lapham @MrLapham]

@safiyaaaay You were a postdoc too at one point, were you not?

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@Rowbear32 @191100grl @theroyalbadness I want any of these idiots to actually engage with this point

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@firstfemcel @Sola_Requiem Can you honestly elaborate why she deserves to be rehabilitated, but any other psychotic murderer or shooter should be executed?

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@robinsall @avramidou @pdhsu Total misrepresentation of the caution some of us have when using models. Many are performed sloppily with unknown variables assumed unreasonably. They often also underestimate complexity in biological systems. Even when a model is applied incorrectly, it still provides a result.

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@bigoledoinkers @blazebIue @DBrit87 @MmisterNobody Luddites like you using words like "useless" is why nobody takes you seriously https://t.co/Jg2o5hcXde

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@AgoraSignal @BlacknightDiluc @romanhelmetguy They clearly cluster among bronze age Europe, with the Balkans and Italy being their closest neighbors genetically as per Skourtanioti et al 2023. Very strange argument from you, did you just assume nobody would ever actually present the scholarship on the matter?

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@Ulrich1976c That snippet does put forward a reasonable hypothesis (one not properly cited by this group), but as they also outline, hominine ≠ hominin. This isn't anatomical evidence for Rudapithecus or Lufengpithecus being bipeds.

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@Gutsick_Gibbon Thoughts on the placement of Lufengpithecus in that phylogeny? I recall the arguments made for a Dryopith membership for Lufengpithecus being more related to the maxillary region. I always thought the dentition was far more pongo esque given the crenulations

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@scholarhacker @lisa_vasilatos @LeeRberger Advanced brain is referring to cranial organisation information derived from the endocast data. It means the various scaled brain regions are similar to that of modern humans than they would be to habilis or ergaster with potentially comparatively net larger brains.

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@ApoloJedi_ @ZwartThycho You didn't. You just quote Tattersall using language of caution to imply there is no rationale beyond baseless speculation for evolution. Your original post poses a challenge for transitional fossils, he provided them. You either now address their anatomy or capitulate the point

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@Ulrich1976c By what virtue is Rudapithecus, Pierolapithecus, or Lufengpithecus among others bipedal?

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@clumsystiggy (I know this is old) the majority of phylogenies place the dryopiths as hominines and literally every phylogeny places ouranopithecus and graecopithecus as hominines specifically

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@DrZen1 @EricTropicalTX @Tom_Rowsell @OGRolandRat (I know this is old) convergent evolution, yes you're right. However, convergence needs to be demonstrated post-hoc since it's less parsimonious. You can't evoke it to explain away inconvenient characteristics

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@dontrunboi78 @Megalithic12000 Graecopithecus is older than any of the African hominins lol. How can you be so uneducated on a topic you're so willing to hurl your hat into the ring of?

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@EricTropicalTX This is literally just untrue, that team has produced a ton of research together since.