I'm not sure, but would it be clearer to say that it is hypothesized that the bones were eaten by porcupines (rather than likely eaten by porcupines)?
I mean it's not controversial, there are gnawing marks on tooth roots. The source says "Based on the rarity of bones in relation to the preponderance of isolated teeth and the presence of extensive rodent gnawing on tooth roots, it appears that the primary accumulating agent in the southern Chinese cave sites were porcupines" User:Dunkleosteus77 |
push to talk20:38, 24 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Is there a reason why the discussion about whether it was a human ancestor phased out?
The information on peptide sequencing is good and it's clear on how that shows the relations between various apes. However it's unclear to be how the teeth were dated and how the timeframe of the last common ancestor is calculated.
I checked
WP:RED, and the links to non-notable people should be removed. You can keep the links for people who have articles other languages, but if someone doesn't have any secondary sources written about them then you should remove the link.
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23:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)reply
added. By the way, the source referred to them as P3 and P4 instead of P1 and P2 and I'm not entirely certain why. Should I say "first and second premolars" instead of "third and fourth premolars"? User:Dunkleosteus77 |
push to talk23:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)reply
How were you able to tell that the source was actually talking about P1 and P2? I'm not an expert so I'm not sure, but if that would make this article more consistent with other articles about early apes, then you should make the change.
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23:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)reply
They show pictures of the mandible with teeth which clearly show 2 premolars, never mention P1 and P2, and (this makes it the most obvious) they say "both lower premolars" or "both upper premolars" sometimes User:Dunkleosteus77 |
push to talk00:06, 25 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I think you should follow convention. 00:28, 25 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding
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