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Missing link between man and apes found (New skeleton found)
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 04/03/10 | Richard Gray

Posted on 04/04/2010 1:26:05 PM PDT by jerry557

The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.

Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis.

Experts who have seen the skeleton say it shares characteristics with Homo habilis, whose emergence 2.5 million years ago is seen as a key stage in the evolution of our species.

The new discovery could help to rewrite the history of human evolution by filling in crucial gaps in the scientific knowledge.

Most fossilised hominid remains are little more than scattered fragments of bone, so the discovery of an almost-complete skeleton will allow scientists to answer key questions about what our early ancestors looked like and when they began walking upright on two legs.

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The fossil record of early humans is notoriously patchy and scientists now hope that the that the new remains will provide fresh clues about how our species evolved.

Scientists believe that a group of apelike hominids known as Australopithicus, which first emerged in Africa around 3.9 million years ago, gradually evolved into the first Homo species.

Over time the Australopithicus species lost their more apelike features as they started to stand upright and their brain capacity increased.

Around 2.5 million years ago Homo habilis, the first species to be described as distinctly human, began to appear, although only a handful of specimens have ever been found.

It is thought that the new fossil to be unveiled this week will be identified as a new species that fits somewhere between Australopithicus and Homo habilis.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: australopithecus; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; humans; science; sediba; skeleton
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To: alloysteel

HAha. My sentiments exactly. “Experts” in this field are banal humorists of the first magnitude.

Wait for the “truth” to refute this hoax oh-—say next week.


21 posted on 04/04/2010 2:02:35 PM PDT by petertare (--.)
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To: jerry557
Curly Q. Link (Q for Quff) is supposed to be the missing link!
(nephew of Bob O. Link)

22 posted on 04/04/2010 2:13:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: jerry557

Fossils and their metaphors.


23 posted on 04/04/2010 2:13:55 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: jerry557
Finally!!< /sarc >
24 posted on 04/04/2010 2:15:06 PM PDT by cookcounty ("When they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," --"Brawls for Radicals" --by Obama & Alinsky)
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25 posted on 04/04/2010 2:17:46 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: jerry557

Now if Bush was still president, what do you think the MSM would be saying about it???


27 posted on 04/04/2010 2:21:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If someone calls me a racist I'll just tell them you're just saying that because I'm white ....)
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To: chicken head

KNOCK IT OFF!


28 posted on 04/04/2010 2:40:30 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: jerry557

29 posted on 04/04/2010 2:48:41 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: FormerACLUmember

Favors Michelle O a lot, eh?


30 posted on 04/04/2010 2:50:16 PM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies..)
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To: Quickgun

“Favors Michelle O a lot, eh?”

My very first thought when I saw chimp gal.


31 posted on 04/04/2010 3:35:58 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: jerry557
If we evolved from apes - how come we still HAVE apes?

I have never yet found an evolutionist who could answer that/ Indeed it usually renders them slack jawed and speechless.

Try it. It's fun.

32 posted on 04/04/2010 3:40:00 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7

“I have never yet found an evolutionist who could answer that/ Indeed it usually renders them slack jawed and speechless.”

—Amazing - that sounds exactly like the reaction I get whenever I ask Creationists how Moses was able to fit two of every animal aboard the Ark of the Covenant!


33 posted on 04/04/2010 3:59:51 PM PDT by goodusername
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To: maine-iac7

Because some apes were smart enuff not to evolve!


34 posted on 04/04/2010 4:01:27 PM PDT by 20yearvet (they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
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35 posted on 04/04/2010 4:16:45 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7
"If we evolved from apes - how come we still HAVE apes?"

Evolution doesn't hold we evolved from apes, so either the "evolutionists" you asked this question were utterly ignorant on the subject or they were of the same general level of intelligence as yourself.

(Notice I didn't assert that you lied about ever having actually asked anyone this question.)

36 posted on 04/04/2010 5:12:52 PM PDT by LogicWings
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To: LogicWings
OOps!
37 posted on 04/04/2010 5:17:07 PM PDT by LogicWings
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To: jerry557

I wonder if this going to be another one of those new discoveries that turns out to be just another monkey story? It seem that every time a paleontologist finds a bone fragment it becomes a new missing link?


38 posted on 04/04/2010 7:20:25 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: LogicWings

“Evolution doesn’t hold we evolved from apes ...”

Sincen the article is, “Missing link between man and apes found,” you repudiae it?

Just curious.

Hank


39 posted on 04/04/2010 7:28:08 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: LogicWings

[Correcting my last]

“Evolution doesn’t hold we evolved from apes ...”

Since the article is, “Missing link between man and apes found,” you repudiate it?

Just curious.

Hank


40 posted on 04/04/2010 7:34:23 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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