Fleagle

The Banana Splits (Fleagle, Snooper, Bingo, and Snorky) were live action — basically four guys in cartoon-like animal suits (designed by Sid and Marty Krofft before they got to do their own memorable kid-vid shows), who ran around (and frequently into each other) and performed the worst jokes in the world, usually at a level below the best knock-knock jokes you can think of.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 and 1970s Volume 2 » DVDs Worth Watching 2009

Except for the ankle and a few other traits, most of the traits offered to link adapiforms to anthropoids “have been known for decades,” said Fleagle.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

Nic Cage recently took some time away from his kids, Voltron and Fleagle or whatever the hell their names are to do an interview in which he discussed Ghost Rider 2 and National Treasure 3.

NIC CAGE SHOULD SHUT UP 2007

Both Fleagle and Beard were not impressed with this argument.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

Fleagle observed that, ironically, most of the evidence presented in the paper is old news.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

Instead, I asked what Fleagle and Beard thought about the actual argument in the paper, which has to do with where humans, apes, and monkeys (known as anthropoids) fit in the primate family tree.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

Fleagle pointed out to me that there are some early anthropoid fossils that lack some of the traits that supposedly join Darwinius to anthropoids.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

The authors of the study get kudos from Fleagle for providing so much anatomical detail and high-resolution images of the primate, because that will enable lots of scientists to take their own stab at placing Darwinius in the primate tree.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

Fleagle observed that it will be possible to learn many details about the biology of early primates from Darwinius, down to the stages by which it teeth erupted.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

If we only had this morphological data, the possible monophyly of a drill-mangabey + drill/mandrill clade would be suspicious (Fleagle & McGraw 1999).

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