Waldo Jaquith

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=Jaquith,+Mississippi
Waldo to Jaquith is about a 700 mile, 12 hour journey. Who knew?

Posted by Perlogik on 2 October 2009 @ 9am

Well the link was suppose to be from Waldo, Florida to Jaquith, Mississippi

Posted by Perlogik on 2 October 2009 @ 9am

“she walked upright, despite the lack of savannah, which is evidence against the theory…”

I find this to be an uncompelling interpretation of scant evidence. One of these hominids happened to die in the woods. That says nothing about how or where they evolved in the previous 50,000 years or so. I’ve heard of very complete skeletons of deer being found at the bottoms of long drops deep inside of caves but nobody is suggesting that deer evolved in caves. There is way more physical evidence of how deer evolved than of early hominids, but you get the idea.

Ardi is a neat specimen, but I have not seen anything yet about Ardi that poses a serious challenge to the conventional view of how early hominids split off from the primates that would later become apes, or how those hominids developed into modern humans.

Posted by Jack on 2 October 2009 @ 9am

Jack,
I don’t think that the “scant evidence” is that she died in the woods. There are features of the bones in the feet and hands that led scientists to believe that she both walked upright when on the ground, but quadrupedally in the trees.

I can’t access the Times article, but here’s one from NatGeo.

Posted by Meri on 2 October 2009 @ 10am

Also, she was surrounded by something like three dozen other (much less complete) specimens.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 2 October 2009 @ 1pm

I suspect that I won’t ever be making the Waldo -> Jaquith trip. :)

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 2 October 2009 @ 1pm

There’s a Meri, Uganda. Also one in the Phillipines. Nothing near the US, though.

Posted by Meri on 2 October 2009 @ 3pm

I wonder how they pronounce it. Once the original Jaquith was no longer around to correct people, I suspect it was corrupted to “JACK-with”.

Posted by Janis Jaquith on 3 October 2009 @ 10am

About 35 miles from Clarksdale MS, where I spent the summers of ’63 and ’64 as a kid living with relatives. It was a very tumultuous time to be there, and educational without the need for book learnin’. Wish I could say it was also fun.

Posted by Skyline on 4 October 2009 @ 12pm