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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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 Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: You just can't make stuff like this up! |
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Has this been reported in the Turkish press?
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Family may provide evolution clue
Five siblings from Turkey who can only walk on all fours could provide science with an insight into human evolution, researchers have said. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4782492.stm |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| I haven't seen anything. Where about in turkey is it? Galatasaray's stadium? |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: Re: You just can't make stuff like this up! |
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| Sheikh Inal Ovar wrote: |
Has this been reported in the Turkish press?
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Family may provide evolution clue
Five siblings from Turkey who can only walk on all fours could provide science with an insight into human evolution, researchers have said. |
They were on the telly last night. Apparently they're rather inbred.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4782492.stm |
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justme
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I saw them on TV about a month ago, with a similar *shocking* claim about evolution, but more in a making fun of it way, since evolution doesn't fly here...
More troubling is that there are 18 siblings in that family! I guess the article doesn't specify the number of wives though.... |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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'You walk like a monkey!' says Professor
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The method of locomotion used by the Turkish children and by our closest relatives chimpanzees and gorillas, differs in a crucial way, said Professor Humphrey.
While gorillas and chimpanzees walk on their knuckles, the Turkish siblings put their weight on the wrists, lifting their fingers off the ground. |
Whoever would have thought such a comparison could be published without creating a stir ... good illustration of the importance of context ... fact v opinion ... and / or the 'benefit of the clergy' enjoyed by the scientific approach ?
Good sample text for comparatives anyhow ... |
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