Posted on 10/01/2009 3:57:48 PM PDT by JoeProBono
WASHINGTON -- Move over, Lucy. A 4-foot-tall female nicknamed Ardi, who lived 4.4 million years ago in Africa, has replaced you as the earliest best known ancestor of the human species.
Ardi's nearly complete skeleton is 1 million years older than Lucy's, pushing back the point when hominids - pre-human primates - are known to have split from the evolutionary line that led to chimpanzees and gorillas, an international team of scientists announced Thursday.
"Ardi is not a chimp. It's not a human. It's what we used to be," said paleontologist Tim White, an authority on human evolution at the University of California, Berkeley.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Mrs. Obama, please pick up the pink courtesy phone. We have found something you need to know.
Guilty!
Thanks! Gotta read more of this guy.
Werewolves of London.
Oldest known human ancestor rewrites evolution theories
Canada.com | October 1, 2009 | Ken Meaney
Posted on 10/01/2009 12:18:15 PM PDT by Pharmboy
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It’s registered to vote in Chicago...
...and has shown up to vote every election since 4,397,991 BC...
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