Amazing hominid haul in Ethiopia

BBC News ^ | January 19, 2005 | Unsigned

[Wally_Kalbacken]

It's Bush's fault!

[bikepacker67]

The more "cousins" of Homo Sapians we find the more it's evident that primate intraspecies competition is murderous.

Just ask Jane Goodall about the first time she saw a chimpanzee 1st degree murder.

[pabianice]

A. ramidus. Registered to vote in Chicago's sixth precinct.

[bikepacker67]

Jast an add-on, the bigger the brain, the bigger the scheming.

[FormerACLUmember]

Registered to vote in Chicago's sixth precinct.

LOL. And Wisconsin. And Washington State.

And with an IQ of 25, truly the ideal democrat voter.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

"... at least nine primitive hominids that are between 4.5 million and 4.3 million years old."

Anna Nicole Smith just hopped on a plane to Ethiopia to give them a lap dance.

[the_roach]

IT'S A TRAP!!!


No seriously, cool! Now will the creationist please lay off the evolution doesn't exist stuff? Please?

[ASA Vet]

Registered to vote in Chicago's sixth precinct.

There are lots of dead voying in Chicago, often several times each.
This is a hugh problem, and we should get series about fixing it.

[shubi]

I think they meant 4.3 thousand years since the Earth is only 6000 years old and all the dino bones have been place in chronological order in the strata by God to fool us into thinking that there was no Noah flood.

I mean, you can just look at the rain they just had in California and know that there must have been a flood.

Wait, I lost my aluminum hat that protects me from Alien nuclitodonic ray guns.

[WOSG]

LOL. "A. ramidus. Registered to vote in Chicago's sixth precinct."

As opposed to the fossils in Senate

Homo Erectus-Drink-like-a-Picses Kennedy
Homo Romanus-babbler Byrd

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Mike, for the email, and aculeus for posting the topic.

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[John O]

Now will the creationist please lay off the evolution doesn't exist stuff? Please?

No one brought it up except you. I'llmake just one comment and then I'll shut up. Just because they find some teeth and bones does not prove evolution. That is, there is nothing to link these teeth and bones to modern man. An extinct species of ape (or hominid) does not prove that one species follows another.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

The age of the remains was estimated by dating volcanic material found in their vicinity.

Did I miss something? If we take a sample coming out of Mt. Saint Helens it would give a recent date? (I realize that carbon-14 doesn't work on recent aging but help me put this into perspective. Do they know the date of the volcanic explosion and are cross referencing it or are they telling us that volcanic ash give the same date as the hominid fossils?

Thanks

[mewzilla]

Wow, his molar looks worse than mine do!

[mewzilla]

Here's a link to some info on radiometric dating techniques :)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Another article.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Nice link, thank you.

[Tallguy]

Scientists say features of a phalanx, or foot bone, unearthed at the site show the hominid it belonged to probably walked upright like a human.

Do they mean 'phallange'? A 'phallanx' is a military formation of pike-carrying infantrymen. Hehe! You gotta love 'science' writers. They get it 'right' about as much as 'pentagon' reporters.

[CobaltBlue]

Good news ping!