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Scientists dispute ‘new’ species discovery: Critics say Lead Researcher's claim jumps the gun
WORLD ^ | 09/11/2015 | DANIEL JAMES DEVINE

Posted on 09/18/2015 6:52:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/18/2015 6:52:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE-CONSTRUCTION OF HOMO NALEDI


2 posted on 09/18/2015 6:54:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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the Noses on these artist conceptions always bug me.

the end of MY Nose is made out of Cartilage and thus wont outlast the rest of my F;esh by a great deal of time.

Perhaps these “guys” noses were of an earlier configuration and constructer of 100 percent Bone??

The “scientists” must be guessing...I guess


3 posted on 09/18/2015 6:58:29 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Ya think? By this time next year they’ll tell you what they ate, believed, worshipped and looked for in their in-laws.


4 posted on 09/18/2015 7:04:51 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: MeshugeMikey

Might be related to Al Sharpton ...


5 posted on 09/18/2015 7:05:28 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: SeekAndFind

Just as likely a place their contemporaries placed the freaks from inbreeding. My guess, at this point, is just as good as theirs. LOL!


6 posted on 09/18/2015 7:06:16 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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Bwaahahahaha Thats a Given alright!

I await their namingthe various skeletal remains...
7 posted on 09/18/2015 7:07:56 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Ken522

The thought had done crosst my mine....

” “mosaic” of atypical features.”

HOMO NALEDI

Aint Dat Sexcess??


8 posted on 09/18/2015 7:10:39 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Tommyrot! Spell check failed on a real word.
9 posted on 09/18/2015 7:16:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Ken522
'5 feet tall and weighed 100 pounds.....'

Looks and sounds oddly like George Takei........oh, my.


10 posted on 09/18/2015 7:21:59 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’d say the next thing is to get some estimates of age (difficult in a cave). They do seem different than other pre humans. They may well be a branch that didn’t go anywhere.


11 posted on 09/18/2015 7:23:35 PM PDT by JimSEA
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This is the guy with the credit for finding evacuating and describing these fossils. As such, he gets the first shot at proposing the name and placing in a genus. Now, all of the rest get to throw darts at him. Mostly, they are jealous that they didn’t make the discovery, but his opinion will have to withstand considerable criticism over the next few years. Probably none of these first complainers have even seen the fossils except on the PBS NOVA program.

I’m guessing that his description and name will stand, but we’ll see.


12 posted on 09/18/2015 7:26:20 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: MeshugeMikey

“The “scientists” must be guessing...I guess”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Doubtless we will also be told that they were gay as well.


13 posted on 09/18/2015 7:31:04 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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the one in the photo was clearly Trans Gendered....


14 posted on 09/18/2015 7:41:52 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: JimSEA

from the skeletons... I simply cant determine anything

from the artists speculative rendering...Im not really certain either.

At lease these might not end up like “lucy”.... big fraud


15 posted on 09/18/2015 7:45:55 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Lucy wasn’t a fraud. Here skeleton preserved over 40% of her body and hundreds of skeletons of her species have been found. While they are most likely to be ancestral to us, there is no final proof in a more advanced immediate descendent yet.


16 posted on 09/18/2015 7:50:38 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Seems to me that I have seen a few of them still running around in this time frame.


17 posted on 09/18/2015 8:11:10 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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According to Richard Leakey, who along with Johanson is probably the best-known fossil-anthropologist in the world, Lucy’s skull is so incomplete that most of it is ‘imagination made of plaster of paris’.1 Leakey even said in 1983 that no firm conclusion could be drawn about what species Lucy belonged to.

In reinforcement of the fact that Lucy is not a creature ‘in between’ ape and man, Dr Charles Oxnard, Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, said in 1987 of the australopithecines (the group to which Lucy is said to have belonged):

“‘imagination made of plaster of paris’” I liked that ,,,,,sort of like “liberal “thought”


18 posted on 09/18/2015 8:27:31 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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There are hundreds of similar and related fossils. Many found and validated since 1987. If Lucy was a “one of” there would be many grounds to question her relationships but there are too many similar fossil creatures to toss her to the side. No one can yet definitely tie her to us, that’s not how it works but until someone else comes around in her time period with more human like attributes, Lucy is it.


19 posted on 09/18/2015 8:36:20 PM PDT by JimSEA
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[[Deep inside a cave 30 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa, a tight crevasse guards the passageway to what was, until recently, the grave of at least 15 human-like individuals.]]

Deep inside a cave 30 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa, a tight crevasse guards the passageway to what was, until recently, the grave of at least 15 monkeys who fell down the crevice and could not get back out.. Then after their discovery, ‘scientists’ concocted wild but false information, claiming for instance that the ‘feet are remarkably human-like’ when infact they are NOT- the arches in the feet are nothing like human arches- but that didn’t stop the ‘scientists’ from making the false claim and hyping the lie hoping that the news media would pick up o n the story and inflate it even more with even bigger lies about the supposed ‘human-like features’ of this monkey- - which of course they did”

There- fixed the opening line

[[Homo naledi’s shoulder joints and curved finger bones are typical of tree-swinging apes. Its flared hips are typical of australopithecine apes. The lower ribcage widens just like the ribcage of australopithecine apes. And while Homo naledi reportedly has a “generally humanlike ankle and foot” in that the shapes of some of the foot bones could be consistent with an arched foot, this is described in the study as a lower arch with a different orientation than typical of the modern human foot.2

The study describing Homo naledi, published in the journal eLife, indicates the wrist, hands, and thumbs were proportioned in such a way to be able to manipulate tools. (As we noted recently, another team of scientists surveying australopithecine hands confirmed that although australopithecines have longer thumbs than living apes, their finger-thumb proportions resemble neither human nor chimpanzee hands. See “Are Human Hands More Primitive Than Chimps’?” to explore this point further.)]]

https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/homo-naledi-new-species-human-ancestor/


20 posted on 09/18/2015 8:52:21 PM PDT by Bob434
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