Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> Tommi Huhtamaki Wrote:
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> > The thing behind explanations that can sound
> > ridiculous is that if you have a very small
> number
> > of pieces of evidence,practically anything
> could
> > have caused these things.

Alright. So, what could have caused the upright placement of the tusk? Or the femurs that had been smashed with one being placed upright and the other reversed?
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> Right, that's why the Cerutti team in the Nature
> paper didn't claim as fact the vertical tusk had
> to be caused by hominins. They only claimed: "The
> vertical
> tusk (CM-56; Extended Data Figs 3c, 7c) is
> interpreted as the result of
> purposeful placement."
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> It's only an "interpretation", they didn't say it
> was a law that the only way was by hominin
> placement. Anyone claiming it was simply didn't
> read the paper and are misinterpreting what was
> actually stated.

Oh please, we all know the games scientists play, they hide everything in understatements.
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