>I'm with Glenn and Burgy on this one. Plenty of mischief has already been
>worked in the past by virtue of one race or ethnic group deciding that
>another is "backward", "primitive", "less-evolved" etc. I'm loathe to
>repeat those mistakes. Since we are not now in possession of objective,
>replicable criteria for differentiating human from nonhuman or subhuman in
>the fossil record, why not just give _all_ potential ancestors of modern
>day humans the benefit of the doubt? If such criteria ever become
>available, we can change our minds, but like Burgy I am doubtful they will.
After reflection, count me in. Now what is Lucy, human, sub-human or
non-human?
Dick Fischer
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