Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago

TERRADAILY ^ | Feb 17, 2005 | Salt Lake City UT (SPX)

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

A closeup of horizontal layers of rock in Ethiopia's Kibish Formation, which yielded the oldest known fossils of the human species, Homo sapiens.

So, how old is that vertical thingy that goes through about 50 layers?

[tricky_k_1972]

That’s not part of the rock, if you zoom in on the picture it looks like a machete lying against the rock for a scale comparison.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Ah, I think you're right :-)

[general_re]

U238 does not decay into Th238.

Nice catch. That's journalism for ya ;)

[general_re]

In the beginning was the Word.

Could be quite literally true.

[LiteKeeper]

Food for thought:

Redating Leakey’s Ethiopian human finds: more problems for compromise

[pabianice]

Unmentioned is that this dating means H. sapiens was a contemporary of not only H. neanderthalis, but H. erectus as well. Amazing and important.

[pabianice]

BTW, both Omo I and Omo II are registered to vote in Chicago as Democrats...

[Smartaleck]

Awww man, somebody missed a lot of birthday parties. Sheesh

[aspiring.hillbilly]

All i got to do is get a load of my bro. Zack and realize there were apes in his distant past

[satchmodog9]

Never apologize for posting good material.

[facedown]

Bump; ping.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping, but we had a thread on this a few days ago (different title):
Oldest Remains of Modern Humans Are Identified by Scientists.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tricky_k_1972. :')

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[ValerieUSA]

It's even more of a shame that the apology won't mean a thing to the people who will be around soon to damn you to hell for posting it.

It's even more of a shame that hypocrites like you are here picking fights so you can blame others for picking the fights.

[shubi]

"It's a shame you have to apologize up front on FR for merely posting an article on this subject."

Amen!

[TomB]

It's even more of a shame that hypocrites like you are here picking fights so you can blame others for picking the fights.

Huh? How am I a hypocrite?

[sam_paine]

Huh? How am I a hypocrite?

Huh? How am I involved in you being called a hypocrite?

;-)

[js1138]

This adds two more missing links that haven't been found. Where are all the transitionals?

[TomB]

Huh? How am I involved in you being called a hypocrite?

Not "I", Sam, "We".

We're both hypocrites.

(although I'm not sure why. but I am sure there's a biblical verse that explains it all.) ;-)