BOO!
BOO!
Looking at my in-laws, I’d say they are correct.....
“This is the most robust data we have seen to date.”
That’s not saying a hell of a lot.
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They found Lord Ganesh's remains?
Is that why some women have butts he size of an elephants. :)
I’ve found it! At last, the proof of the Mammoth Conspiracy
I’ve been looking for the deep-cover conspiracy about the spate of mammoth stories recently. Now I realize it’s all aplot by AL Gore and his legions of Greens. It’s all about climate change.
“Mammoths and Asian elephants speciated around 6.7 million years ago, roughly the same time humans and chimps split.
He added that several groups of modern animals—not just elephants and humans—went through significant change during that time, the late Miocene period. The most widely held theory about what happened then is that climate change led to ...fragmented habitats and spurred many species to evolve.
The new study lends further credibility to the notion that climate change can lead to evolutionary change.”
The Theory: Accept Kyoto are you face another evolutionary change, presumably back into gorillas—or possibly into Gila Monsters.
Gee, but I’d give the world to see
that old gang of mine!
I can’t forget that old quartet
that sang “Sweet Adeline!” ( Sweet Adeline! )
Goodbye forever, old fellas an’ gals
goodbye forever, old sweethearts an’ pals
God Bless them!
Gee, but I’d give the world to see
that old gang of mine!
The only factual nugget in the entire article is that the genome sequence of the woolly mammoth was closer to that of the Asian elephant than the African elephant.
The rest of it is the usual evolutionist speculation and spin sans factual content.
I found this statement intriguing (is radio carbon dating really THAT unrealiable?):
“Radiocarbon dating of the collagen in the tooth places its age at at least 50,000 years. But researchers have concluded, based on the dating of other material from the area, that the fossil may be as old as 130,000 years old.”
I just wish some of you brainiacs would apply what you know about past evolutionary changes in the size & structure of animals to a discussion on the future physique of humans, in say (?) 200K years.
If we stop smoking, eating meat, have no means of transportation, cannot walk outside because of global air pollution, have sexual confusion and use only Government pre-selected ova and sperm to procreate in labs, continue to sit at computers to communicate, what form will homo sapiens take?
My guess is we will look very much like Roswell aliens.
I’m going to sleep now;)
Sure. Humans rode elephants into the New World to escape the dinosaurs.
All interesting, but where does the Morroccan Elephant fit into this break? Was it an offshoot of the asian that didn’t leave Africa, or an offshoot of the African Elephant?
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Radiocarbon dating of the collagen in the tooth places its age at at least 50,000 years. But researchers have concluded, based on the dating of other material from the area, that the fossil may be as old as 130,000 years old. Never before have researchers successfully sequenced a genome from such an ancient piece of bone. Previously, Hofreiter said, the oldest fossil from which scientists were able to extract a complete genome was about 30,000 years old.