Re: More on Kitz/Dover

anon1@xxxxxxx wrote:

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>>We are closest to chimps, then bonos, Then Gorillas, then orangotanges.
>
> No. We are equally closest to both chimps and bonobos, because those
> two species form a single clade. The LCA of chimps and bononos is more
> recent than the LCA of humans and chimps+bonobos. At least that's the
> way I read it. Professor Harshman, did I get it correct?

That's "Herr Doktor Professor Harshman" to you. And yes, exactly.

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