Talk:Tim White (anthropologist)

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Is this article missing something? Didn't Tim White discover "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis)? This would seem to bear a mention! --206.124.140.58 20:14, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

The sentence about Ardipithecus Ramidus is inaccurate in two ways. First, it is overly bold to declare Ar. Ramidus a human ancestor. It may be common to do so, but the best we can say is that it is a species close to the human line of descent. But more important, it's certainly not the oldest known ancestor -- wouldn't the earliest known mammal be a likely earlier ancestor? Or the recently discovered fish/tetrapod intermediate, Tiktaalik -- this is a much earlier human ancestor. Or the earliest known Chordate, from the Cambrian.Jyossarian 03:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd also be interested in seeing a mention about his involvement/ responsibility for NAGPRA non-compliance at UC Berkeley, but I'm not sure where in the article it would go (as its an ongoing controversy). Any ideas? 71.197.87.105 (talk) 21:56, 23 March 2008 (UTC)