Comments on: Welcoming Aaron Filler to Anthropology.net http://anthropology.net/2007/12/13/welcoming-aaron-filler-to-anthropologynet/ Beyond bones & stones Sun, 27 May 2012 23:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frank Roberts http://anthropology.net/2007/12/13/welcoming-aaron-filler-to-anthropologynet/#comment-11775 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:45:47 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/12/13/welcoming-aaron-filler-to-anthropologynet/#comment-11775 What I really enjoy about Filler’s recent work is not that I’m necessarily won over by his arguments but rather the challenging nature of the ideas. Morotopithecus may or may not have been our ancestor (though I’m certainly swayed to notion that it was a habitual biped) but what I find puzzling is the resistance to the notion that we may have evolved from a line of apes which had been upright for 20 million years.

As the post-cranial fossil evidence from beyond 4 million years is sketchy at best there is no reason yet to fight off Filler’s scenarios. So what if they were upright all along? Are we trying to discover our true ancestry or just attempting to make sure what we find adheres to long standing ideas about our ancestors?

When, and if, the definitive fossils from the divergence of chimps and apes are found they’ll speak for themselves. No need to get up in arms and take sides over an issue which simply is not clear at this point.

]]> By: mike http://anthropology.net/2007/12/13/welcoming-aaron-filler-to-anthropologynet/#comment-11352 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:55:26 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/12/13/welcoming-aaron-filler-to-anthropologynet/#comment-11352 fyi earth is only 100mil yrs old, if the earth was any older then the sun would have been to close to earth to support life, check it out before dismissing.

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