Talk:Tim D. White

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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)

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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)

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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)

We need to know how much he was paying her
"In 1994, White discovered what was then the oldest known human ancestor: 4.4 million-year-old Ar. ramidus. Found near the Awash River in Ethiopia, an almost complete fossilized female skeleton named "Ardi" took nearly 15 years to prepare publication of the description."

Did he really expect a quick turnaround when he left her to do the legwork? And who's to say she wouldn't have been quicker if she'd been complete?

I'm making a little edit in an effort to resolve these pressing issues, but thought the above too charming to remove unrecorded.--Frans Fowler (talk) 10:46, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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video link change for "On the Trail..."
I'm not a proficient wiki editor, so I'm reluctant to change the article.

The link to one of the videos (on the trail to our human ancestors) gives an error 404. The following link seems to work fine. Perhaps someone can update the article with it

https://conversations.berkeley.edu/white_2003

122.104.32.254 (talk) 07:23, 29 October 2019 (UTC)Martyn