LES BREVES :
samedi 28 novembre
Ardipithecus : le singe descend de l’homme !
vendredi 27 novembre
Le singe descend de l’homme
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VENDREDI 27 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 7.1
ESSAI SUR LE STATUT PHYLOGENIQUE DES HOMINOÏDES FOSSILES ET RECENTS :
LE POINT DE VUE DE LA THEORIE DE LA BIPEDIE INITIALE ( 2ème partie )
par
François de Sarre
If man has remained morphologically and anatomically more or less the same throughout the course of the last geological ages, different groups of hominoids have followed their own evolution, progressing parallel to man and at the same time branching out. The Initial Bipedalism Theory allows us to argue that the different types of fossil-known hominoids ( commonly accepted as the links binding the Homo sapiens to his presumed simian ancestors ) and of still-living hominoids ( like the yeti or the sasquatch ) appear to be rather vestiges of man’s lineage.
The Australopithecines, for instance, have kept ( as the fossils show ) a ’relic’ bipedalism, developed once from man, and evolved towards a stage of anthropomorphic ape. As fossilization is a highly unusual process, paleontological data will be always incomplete. It explains the fact that ancient traces of man’s activity on earth have not been found until today ( or not recognized ! ). On the other hand, the survival until present time of remote hominoids throughout the world is not admitted by classical anthropology, although this possibility should be considered open. A series of deductions leads us to the suggestion that the present situation in the Primates’ distribution ( including man, hidden hominoids, apes, monkeys ) is the same as in past geological times.
VENDREDI 27 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 7.2
LES HOMMES SAUVAGES DE VOREPPE
Par René LAURENCEAU
Wild groups of human, both male and female, were still be found in the French Alps during the 19th Century.
The male creatures were captured, castrated and then used as herdsmen in the summer pastures, the ’alps’. They are the ’crétins’ Balzac refers to in his book Le médecin de campagne.
VENDREDI 27 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 7.3
HOMMAGE A JEAN PIVETEAU
Par René LAURENCEAU
Mon beau-père le professeur Jean Piveteau, paléontologue, Membre de l’Institut, s’est éteint le 7 mars 1991.
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