Of hominids, fossils, and cladists

✍ Scribed by Dr. Michael Bamshad; Anthony Comuzzie

• Book ID: 101458701
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 317 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330850317

✦ Synopsis

A critical appraisal of the "assumptions and methodologies" of cladistic analysis as applied to the hominid fossil record is a laudable pursuit. Unfortunately, after reading on1 the first few paragraphs of the article gy Trinkaus (19901, it is apparent that his conce tual and technical understanding of cla istics is sim 1 incorrect.

The initial assumption o rinkaus, that the "ultimate goal of paleoanthro ology is to