Talk:Oreopithecus

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Are there any outside links to support the claims of this article? A date, or even just a year, for when the bones were first found? Who led the expedition?

As it stands, this article is a stub, and for all anyone knows, is a hoax.

Nope, not a hoax. See Mikko's phylogeny page] for some scant information. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:57, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The name quickly inspired the commonly used name for the species among paleontologists, which is, inevitably, Cookie Monster.

I don't understand. What name? Was there something lost in an earlier edit, or am I missing something? Nik42 22:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The scientific name, Oreopithecus. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:23, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Family

Why does wikipedia take sides in a scientific dispute over the origins of this fossile? Is it really in wikipedias interest to take sides? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.185.28.23 (talk • contribs) .

The taxobox is used to give readers a quick overview of the taxonomy and provide quick access to key taxa. The article body itself spells out the questionability of the Oreopithecidae family, as would that article once it gets written. It's appropriate to leave the link in the taxobox and let the more inquisitive reader read further than the taxobox. the question mark I can live with. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

broken external link

The 3rd hot link appears to be inactive. Jbottoms76 16:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Link removed. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Error

The following passage was posted by 66.192.122.49 at Wikipedia:Help desk. I've transferred it here, since here it's more likely to have constructive results. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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This passage contains an error and is found under Oreopithecus. "The Swamp Ape (Oreopithecus bambolii) is a prehistoric primate species from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in Italy (Tuscany and Sardinia) and in East Africa. Their habitat appears to have been swampy, and not savanna or forest. The fossils are sufficient to indicate that there was a lumbar curve, implying some adaptation to upright walking, in distinction to otherwise similar species known from the same period. Since the fossils have been dated to about 8 million years ago, this represents an unusually early appearance of upright posture, lending itself to the aquatic ape theory of human bipedalism, especially in conjunction with other evidence of a possible earlier date for the evolution of hominids, such as the six to seven million year old, very human-looking Toumai skull."

An early time of appearance of bipedalism in no way supports the aquatic ape theory. Time of origin of bipedalism may well be fifteen million years ago during the miocene ape radiation. The bipedal mode of walking is fifty percent more efficient than quadrupedal ape locomotion. Association with water in fossils does not assure those animals were swimmers. Many pteradactyls were found preserved in sediments! This passage contains an error and is found under Oreopithecus. "The Swamp Ape (Oreopithecus bambolii) is a prehistoric primate species from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in Italy (Tuscany and Sardinia) and in East Africa. Their habitat appears to have been swampy, and not savanna or forest. The fossils are sufficient to indicate that there was a lumbar curve, implying some adaptation to upright walking, in distinction to otherwise similar species known from the same period. Since the fossils have been dated to about 8 million years ago, this represents an unusually early appearance of upright posture, lending itself to the aquatic ape theory of human bipedalism, especially in conjunction with other evidence of a possible earlier date for the evolution of hominids, such as the six to seven million year old, very human-looking Toumai skull."

An early time of appearance of bipedalism in no way supports the aquatic ape theory. Time of origin of bipedalism may well be fifteen million years ago during the miocene ape radiation. The bipedal mode of walking is fifty percent more efficient than quadrupedal ape locomotion. Association with water in fossils does not assure those animals were swimmers. Many pteradactyls were found preserved in sediments! —preceding comment by User:66.192.122.49

Cites, please

Article has no inline cites (Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations). Please provide good inline cites for everything in this article. Paleontology of Hominoidea is always a controversial subject. (WP:CONTROVERSY, WP:CITE#CHALLENGED) -- Writtenonsand (talk) 02:12, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]