Re: Man in China 2.4 million years ago?

John P. McKiness (jmckines@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:38:20 -0600

At 10:05 AM 11/12/98 -0500, Gordon wrote:
>Glenn recently wrote:
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>While I am prepared to believe this interesting
>report, and even suspect it is true, I can think of
>a number of reasons why this report could be flawed.
>To mention two:
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>Gordie
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I agree with you and I am also sceptical for a third reason. Nationalism
plays a big part in science, and especially in paleoanthropology. The
claims may be correct, but it is too early in the research stage to get
excited about the claims or to use them to justify personal beliefs.

John

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