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Brachinus
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Message 11 of 52 (7533)
03-21-2002 7:18 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by leekim
03-21-2002 5:41 PM


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Originally posted by leekim:

Did you realize that the British Museum's Catalogue of Fossil Hominids consists of three volumes with around four thousand entries? It was published in 1975 making it out of date. The number of known fossils continues to increase.
---Wow, four thousand (or slightly more)...considering there should be hundreds of thousands of these "ancestors". The matter is quite perplexing?

Earlier in this thread, you said there should be hundreds, or even thousands. Now that you've been presented with thousands, you claim there should be hundreds of thousands. Why didn't you say so in the first place? It looks to me like you're moving the goalposts.

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