User talk:Trtsmb

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Homininae
You are incorrect. Pan is more closely related to Homo than it is to Gorilla. Putting Pan in Gorillini would mean that Pan is more closely related to Gorilla. - UtherSRG (talk) 02:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Check out Ape. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I feel I need to explain a bit more. There is always a gap between what scientists understand, and what is taught in schools. The textbook creation process (gather information, write, edit, publish, distribute, repeat for new edition) goes on outside of the scientific discovery process. Textbooks will continue down one path of understanding as they are rewritten every few years without absorbing all of the latest understandings from the scientific community. In particular, this is true when the scientific understanding is changing at a significant rate. In this case, most anthropology textbooks are 10-20 years out of date, because every couple of years for the past two decades there has been significant change to the understanding of the homind relationships. This is exacerbated by the discrepancy between the anthropolological and primatological POV; anthropologists are interested in describing things from the standpoint of looking from modern hums back through time and how modern humans are related to extinct pre- and proto-humans, while primatologists are interested in describing the relationships between the extant species, utilizing extinct species to fill in the gaps. Textbook writers use what they know to be long-term stable when they write, although they may mention some of the differing understandings. Wikipedia can be more fluid and up-to-date; we can put a more current understanding of taxonomic relationships into our articles. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)