Re: OT Hominidae

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/2/02 12:10:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, qilongia@yahoo.com writes:


> All present researchers except for
> some adverse holdouts to the equivalent of Feduccia vs. Ostrom perceive
> the nature of hominids like *Pan* to be the closest genetic outgroup to
> human populations, *Gorilla* outside of that, and *Pongo* outside of that.


Right.  So if you give _Homo_ its own "family", you have to give _Pan_, _Gorilla_, and _Pongo_ their own "families" as well (or leave them out of any "family").  Seems simpler just to put them all in Hominidae.

--Nick P.