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at a con fer ence at tend ed by well- in terms of his phys i cal char ac ter is -
known pal ae on tol o gists and an thro - tics, was a gen u ine hu man be ing.
pol o gists in Germany. American This re treat once again shows that
Scientist mag a zine re port ed the de - the sce nar io of the hu man line of de -
vel op ments at the con fer ence: scent has col lapsed. The crys tal re al -
. . . most of the par tic i pants at the i ty is that hu mans and apes are life
Senckenberg con fer ence got drawn in - forms cre at ed sep a rate ly by Allah.
to a flam ing de bate over the tax o nom ic
sta tus of Homo erec tus start ed by
Milford Wolpoff of the University of PENTADACTYL HOMOLOGY
Michigan, Alan Thorne of the
- See Five-Digit Homology.
University of Canberra and their col -
leagues. They ar gued force ful ly that
Homo erec tus had no va lid i ty as a spe -
PEPTIDE BOND
cies and should be elim i nat ed al to geth -
er. (Pat Shipman, "Doubting It's not enough for the va ri e ties of
Dmanisi", American Scientist, ami no ac id nec es sa ry to form a pro -
November- December 2000, p. 491) tein to be in the ap pro pri ate num ber
and se quence and to have the need -
The lat est de vel op ments with re -
ed three-di men sion al struc ture.
gard to H. erec tus, un der which
They must al so bond to one an oth er
Peking Man is clas si fied, forced the
by spe cif ic ami no ac id mol e cu les
National Geographic's TV chan nel to
with more than one arm. The bond
make an im por tant ad mis sion. The
formed in this way is known as a
pro gram quot ed the phys i cal an thro -
pep tide bond.
pol o gist Gary Sawyer of the
Amino ac ids may at tach to one
American Museum of Natural
an oth er by a va ri e ty of dif fer ent
History as say ing that Peking Man,
No mat ter how pow er ful or how tech no log i cal ly ad -
vanced that car’s en gine may be, that car will still
be un a ble to cov er any dis tance. In the
same way, if just a sin gle ami no ac id
in a pro tein mol e cule is at -
tached by some oth er
bond than a pep tide
bond, the en tire mol -
e cule will be use -
less.