<<I doubt that Tattersall says
that none of these are human ancestors, or that none of them are
erectus/sapiens intermediates.>>
The point is this. Tattersall says modern man was an extraordinary, recent
event. Point 1. He further says we don't know how it happened. Point 2. That
leaves a puzzle. Tattersall: "[I]t is the nature of that very recent yet still
obscure happening that poses the true enigma of human evolution." [pg. 246]
Naturalists hold out for a naturalistic answer. But I contend there is another
answer. And my main point is that the explosive nature of the arrival of
modern man is a clue to that other answer...just as the explosive arrival of
the cosmos and the animal phyla are clues.
Jim