RE: QfF

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of hammeris1@bellsouth.net
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:16 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: re: QfF
> 
> If those hairy, red-eyed, ape-big-toed, chimp-like muzzled 
> monstrosities were supposed to be in the genus Homo (Homo 
> heidelbergensis), then eeeeew.
> 
> I think it's more realistic to say they just blew it.  :-)
> 
As Quest for Fire was made during the heyday of fossil hominid taxonomic
splitting (back when H. heidelbergensis and H. neandertalensis were "just
archaic Homo sapiens"), I think it is very unlikely that an H.
heidelbergensis identity was intended for the apemen.

I think they were just supposed to be "apemen" ("australopithecines sensu
lato").

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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