Re: New Australopith Find From Wooded Habitat

["rmacfarl"]

Day Brown wrote:
> Rich Travsky wrote:
> >  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7086/full/nature04629.html
...

> Well, Kewl. Then these pot bellied hominids saw the habitat shrinkage
> referred to in "Children of the Ice Age"...

Errh, no. Steve Stanley in "Children of the Ice Age" was writing about
the transition from Australopithecus to Homo, at the beginning of the
Pleistocene, 2.5-2 MYA. This article is referring to the putative
Ardipithecus - Australopithecus transition about 2 million years
earlier...

Ross Macfarlane