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Hobbit species may not have been human
The Australian ^
| 30 Sep 2009
| Cheryl Jones
Posted on 09/30/2009 8:51:41 AM PDT by BGHater
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09/30/2009 8:51:42 AM PDT
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BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:52:01 AM PDT
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BGHater
("real price of every thing ... is the toil and trouble of acquiring it")
To: BGHater
I think this may mean that Donna Shalala and Robert Reich were never eligible to serve in the Federal government.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:52:45 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: BGHater
is considering stripping the hobbits of their human status.
Had Frodo known about this I'm sure he would have kept the ring instead........
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:54:17 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
To: BGHater
"You people are just so insulting."
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:54:47 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Short People got no reason...
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posted on
09/30/2009 11:10:47 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
09/30/2009 11:17:16 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: BGHater; blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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09/30/2009 3:45:06 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I am agnostic about the the whole creationist vs Darwinist arguement. Taxonomy, classification of finds, is a tautology, if A looks like B, then B is a descendant of A, it burns my brain.
I have been reading this stuff for over fifty years and the truth bell has not rung.
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posted on
09/30/2009 4:04:26 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
To: Little Bill; SunkenCiv
I have been reading this stuff for over fifty years...expect more stuff to read the next fifty years, like this:
The announcement of a new species, Homo floresiensis, a primitive hominin that survived until relatively recent times is an enormous challenge to paradigms of human evolution. Until this announcement, the dominant paradigm stipulated that: 1) only more derived hominins had emerged from Africa, and 2) H. sapiens was the only hominin since the demise of Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. Resistance to H. floresiensis has been intense, and debate centers on two sets of competing hypotheses: 1) that it is a primitive hominin, and 2) that it is a modern human, either a pygmoid form or a pathological individual. Despite a range of analytical techniques having been applied to the question, no resolution has been reached. Here, we use cladistic analysis, a tool that has not, until now, been applied to the problem, to establish the phylogenetic position of the species. Our results produce two equally parsimonious phylogenetic trees. The first suggests that H. floresiensis is an early hominin that emerged after Homo rudolfensis (1.86 Ma) but before H. habilis (1.66 Ma, or after 1.9 Ma if the earlier chronology for H. habilis is retained). The second tree indicates H. floresiensis branched after Homo habilis.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJS-4WTYXVS-1&_user=10&_coverDate=07%2F23%2F2009&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=d40a21a61155888f194e3a4e8592a3fc
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posted on
09/30/2009 4:47:12 PM PDT
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AdmSmith
To: BGHater
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09/30/2009 4:59:05 PM PDT
by
Reeses
To: Little Bill
It’s like a scene years ago on the series “LA Law”; Susan Dey’s character was arguing with the other attorney, and they were called into chambers (which happened a lot on that show, it seems to me) where the judge reminded them that the practice of law isn’t about truth, justice, or facts, it’s about advocacy. ;’)
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09/30/2009 5:02:38 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Reeses
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09/30/2009 5:02:58 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith
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09/30/2009 5:03:57 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith
Good Lord that is a jaw breaker, thank God, I went to a Government College before they went South.
You post sounds like a diversity seminar at EXELON, EXC on the NY Stock Exchange.
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posted on
09/30/2009 5:09:21 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
To: BGHater
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posted on
09/30/2009 7:56:17 PM PDT
by
IYellAtMyTV
(Workday Forecast--Increasing pressure towards afternoon. Rum likely by evening.)
To: SunkenCiv; BGHater; All
Perhaps the Hobbits were from the Lucy branch of evolution?
To: SunkenCiv
Hobbits aren’t human? Whoever thought they were? I mean, Frodo? C’mon.
To: TheOldLady
“...Nosethingers.” “NoseFINGERS!”
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posted on
10/01/2009 7:10:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: gleeaikin
That means they’re also descended from the Ricky branch! Egad!
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10/01/2009 7:54:21 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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