Re: S.Afr.apiths ate 90% sedges? Or Just Marc Displaying His Usual Biases?

"Marc Verhaegen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>In a recent phylogenetic analysis (Strait & Grine 2001) A. africanus is
>>either part of a robust clade (as the most basal taxon, sister taxon of
>>Paranthropus) or it's the sister taxon of a clade Paranthropus + Homo. Both
>>topologies are equally parsimonious. This position of A. africanus makes it
>>quite possible that it represents proto-Homo morphology.

>Both these interpretations are wrong: it's obvious that the E & the
>S.African robusts evolved in parallel (IOW, "Paranthropus" is paraphyletic):
>A.africanus almost overlaps with robustus, but is very different from
>aethiopicus-boisei.

Present a numerical cladistic analysis to support that position (and I
don't mean the crap from Human Evolution 9: 121-139 and 11: 35-41).
That is a minimum requirement in systematics today. So, put up or shut
up.

Gerrit