On Mon, 05 Aug 1996 21:42:32, Glenn Morton wrote:
GM>I have just finished reading a very interesting book by Alan
>Walker and Pat Shipman, _The Wisdom of the Bones_ (New York: Alfred
>Knopf, 1996). This book raises several issues which bear on the
>thesis I have advocated, namely, that in order to account for the
>anthropological data, Adam must have been either Homo habilis or
>Homo erectus.
No. The same "anthropological data" would also fit the two-"Adam"
model, namely that Genesis 1 "Man" is a *category* (corresponding to
the genus Homo) and Genesis 2 "Adam" is an *individual*
(corresponding to the species Homo sapiens).
God bless.
Steve
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