Scientists dispute ‘new’ species discovery: Critics say Lead Researcher's claim jumps the gun

WORLD ^ | 09/11/2015 | DANIEL JAMES DEVINE

[Bob434]

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

one of the monkeys had a rainbow colored tooth implant

[Bob434]

[[Lucy’s actual remains did not included hands or feet and reconstructions are commonly presented with human or near-human hands and feet despite the fact that other skeletons of the same creature have hands and feet which are clearly those of an ape, with curved fingers for moving about in trees.]]

[[The story actually gets better (much better) from there if you can believe that, with evolutionists claiming that a deer or other animal trampled “Lucy”’s hips and pelvis, breaking them into pieces, and that the pieces congealed by chances into the conformation of those of an ape, and deriving the true picture of Lucy’s hips and pelvis by making a plaster cast, breaking it up with a saw, and then rearranging the pieces into a more human conformation. ]]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1651429/posts

[House Atreides]

The artist’s rendering looks similar to Obama’s childhood transvestite babysitter. /sarc (or maybe not so sarc?)

[az_gila]

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.

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I agree with your guess, but I think technology has probably overcome your other comment on whether the other scientists had seen the fossils.

The TV presentation showed the bones being 3D scanned into a computer and exact replicas being made by a 3D printing process.

The other scientists world wide only need the digital 3D files to fully examine the shape and details of the fossils.

Score another one for technology and digital engineering...:^)

[House Atreides]

Correction: “She” wasn’t a transvestite, she was transgendered. And “she” was Barry’s “Nanny” and not his babysitter.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-05/obama-transgender-nanny/53372092/1

[Bob434]

[[“She” wasn’t a transvestite, she was transgendered.]]

Whatever- they all look alike to me- unnatural

[alexander_busek]

From the article:

The scientists admit they don’t know the fossils’ age: The bones were not in a sediment layer that could be dated, and the researchers have not yet performed radiocarbon dating, which will damage the bones. Based on their interpretation of the evolutionary tree, they believe the fossils to be 2.5 million years old or more.

From Wikipedia:

Radiocarbon dating is generally limited to dating samples no more than 50,000 years old, as samples older than that have insufficient 14 C to be measurable. Older dates have been obtained by using special sample preparation techniques, large samples, and very long measurement times. These techniques can allow dates up to 60,000 and in some cases up to 75,000 years before the present to be measured.

Thus - what the author of the article fails to recognize, or outright contradicts - radiocarbon dating would be useless in dating these fossils.

Regards,

[jonno]

Hmmm....I wonder, what would the skeleton’s of these two guys reveal about their “species”:
http://www.media4news.com/tallest-and-shortest-men-in-the-world-met-together-in-london/

[octex]

Might be related to Al Sharpton ...
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Reminds me more of former CA Rep. Waxman

[SunkenCiv]

• Homo naledi: New species of human ancestor discovered in South Africa
• New Species of Human Relative Discovered in South African Cave (Homo Naledi)

[ZULU]

I don’t think there is a clear cut division in many cases between these protohumans.