[extropy-chat] EDU: Georgia and Evolution

[Kevin Freels]

Have you heard anything on this lately? How is it progressing? I wonder if
they could get away with this even if the remains were clearly of a
different species? Would they try to say  that H. americanus was a Lakota
Sioux? ;-)



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> > Kevin Freels
> >
> > That's terrific! It sure would help us in America if we had a bunch of
> > 30-130 thousand year old fossilized neanderthal bones all around us...
>
> Nooooooooo!  A profoundly misguided government policy
> now grants native Americans the right to claim *any*
> ancient skeletons as their ancestors, thus giving them
> the right to bury the remains far from scientific
> investigation.  Paleontology in the US is effectively
> slain until the policy is overturned.  Let us hope no
> scientifically valuable human skeletons are discovered
> in North America any time soon.
>
> spike
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