Talk:Human evolution

Strange idea

Where did we get the idea that "When modern climates started, about 40 million years ago, primates were extinct, except for Africa and southern Asia"? And what was the evidence? I don't think there is any evidence, nor a reliable reference. (In any event, Africa and southern Asia is a huge geographical area) So, out it comes, unless someone is able to justify it. Macdonald-ross (talk) 14:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

In any event, I found that much of this section (on primates)was not supported by the ref given, and so have cut that part out. I will put some reliable content in, soon... In practice, this particular article does not need to discuss much other than the great apes and humans. It's wiser not to open other issues unless one knows enough about the subject to do it justice. Macdonald-ross (talk) 14:39, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Now imported useful Identifying features section & edits thereof, and cut the weak and irrelevant section supposedly on primate evolution. Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Page numbers in citations

I just removed the page numbers in two citations I added. The idea of citing the material here is that the reader should be able to find the article cited. Since we provide journal, issue, volume and year this should be no problem. I also found that PNAS seems to number their pages only once per year, which results in very high page numbers. I think we should do this also for the other citations, but I am open to suggestions. --Eptalon (talk) 11:09, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't mind. In university libraries, issues are separate until they are bound. Once they are bound, page numbers are more helpful than issue numbers. Although, having said that, one can always find an article from the index once the volume is bound. It won't affect our readers much, because few of them actually look up the references. We cannot and should not provide the same level of reference as English wiki, and anyone who has a serious need for more knows where they can go to get it, do they not? I wish people would not put up flags when they could find the references for themselves. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:09, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't mind much either way. If you say it's easier to find page 16034-16038 in the 2009 issue of the PNAS, we can put them in. In any case I guess that at the start of the "yearbook", there will be some kind of index, listing where the article is. I doubt many people would simply take the page numbers, and ask the library for those pages. They'd cross-check anyway, because of the fear of typos, and such. In the end, the idea of the reference is that it can be found, the perhaps two minutes it takes to find the article in the index is not something that can be avoided easily. --Eptalon (talk) 12:19, 7 December 2012 (UTC)