A dissent in the hullabaloo over Toumai (see A new ancestor).

Brigitte Senut of the Natural History Museum in Paris said certain aspects of the skull, whose discovery in Chad was announced on Wednesday, were actually sexual characteristics of female gorillas rather than indications of a human character.

If it's a proto-gorilla, that's still pretty interesting, because apparently there's a huge gap in the large ape family tree too. (Can you believe they were protesting inequality in the art world all the way back then?)

[via The Sophontologist]

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