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Farmer-Rick

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1. So do human fossils show the same biases?

Reply to janterry (Original post)

Mon Oct 25, 2021, 09:24 AM

Oct 2021

I read the article but couldn't find a reference to human fossils.

It makes me wonder if this male bias distorts our human evolutionary history. Just makes me wonder.

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Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males [View all] janterry Oct 2021 OP

So do human fossils show the same biases? Farmer-Rick Oct 2021 #1

In Middle Earth, almost all of the orcs are male. Wondering if this is similar. Beakybird Oct 2021 #2

Well, looks like we found the answer for their extinction! ret5hd Oct 2021 #3