The throwback canard

By now some of you have heard of the family that walks on all fours. I got a tip on this story weeks ago from World Science, which has been tracking this for a while and has a new update from a researcher that says this is a "credible" empirical finding. I didn't really intend to post about this for the following reasons: 1) A high probability that it is a hoax. The British media was the first mainstream organ to really take off with this, and they aren't known for their scientific credibility (Nature, The Daily Telegraph is not). Additionally, the findings are coming out of the heart of Central Anatolia, and so are relatively hard to check for most Western scientists. Nevertheless, Carl Zimmer has many more details, including a comment from one of the scientists in question who have seen this family first hand, which suggests this ...