[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[MrB]

My favorite evo “missing link” story so far has been the finding of a tooth that led to the museum depiction of this ape-man’s “family life” in a display.

[GeronL]

That is actually a very very good article.

[HerrBlucher]

Research shows that men notice nude images. Advertising strategies have made extensive use of the observation that “erotic, suggestive and nude female models have a particularly strong attention-getting impact among male consumers.”3 Though Ardi is not presented in an erotic or suggestive posture, she is certainly nude. What better way to attract attention than to portray Ardi with overt human female characteristics?

Maybe they should have named the fossil Titsenass rather than Ardi.

[WV Mountain Mama]

A FReeper declaring Ardi “not guilty” in 5, 4, 3, ...

[xcamel]

Probably a bit closer than your belief in “Fred Flintstone”

[JimSEA]

In the posted portion of this article, there are several intentional misstatements.

1. Ardi does not replace Lucy but is a likely ancestor to her as well as to later hominids.
2. Ardi was most likely female, this was not a choice of the artist or the "evolutionist conspiracy".
3. The artist was constrained by the fossils recovered both in terms of size and facial construction. Also, the reconstruction was of one individual fossil. The small canine tooth gives the face a distinctly different look than a chimp. The upright posture is determined for the fossil as well. Ardi was bipedal.

Normally I don't allow distractions while worshiping at my home temple to Darwin, but this article started out with just too much intentional BS.

[Wacka]

Did any of the creat gang actually watch the show last Sunday night?

[goodusername]

“Artist sketches and other renderings of “Ardi,” the newly proposed replacement for Lucy as man’s distant evolutionary ancestor, convey more than the raw data.”

—In what way is it a “replacement”? This seems to be a bizarre, but common, misunderstanding from a number of Creationist sources. I haven’t seen any scientists claiming that Lucy isn’t an ancestor just because Ardi may be. It’s not as if they are in competition.

“Of the many Ardipithecus ramidus fossil bones and fragments that were collected from 35 individuals along the Awash River in Ethiopia, a female was chosen to represent the species.”

—Well duh; Ardi is by far the most complete specimen of the species found. As for her being given “human” breasts, they actually appear to be more inspired by chimpanzee breasts.
(The link to the picture in the next to last paragraph kinda shows that, although the pics are crude. Also notice that Au. afarensis is between humans and Ar. Ramidus showing that Lucy has in no way been ‘replaced’.)

[jimt]

...First, Ardi is shown with obvious breasts that look essentially like those of human females, albeit hairy.....

Go to the article and check out the picture. If those breasts are "like those of human females", then they're 110 year old human females !

What a stretch !

[ElectricStrawberry]

BWAAAAAhahahahaha....Brian Thomas *MS is one funny guy.

First, Ardi is shown with obvious breasts that look essentially like those of human females, albeit hairy

Um......yeah...."she" had breasts. Does you, Brian Thomas *Ms doubt that a female human ancestor would have breasts??

Second, the pelvic area is explicitly drawn and human-like.

Wow, Brian Thomas *MS.....a picture of a nekkid hair-covered waist get you to blush or something? Imagine that....a human ancestor had a human-like pelvic area. STOP THE PRESSES!!!

erotic, suggestive and nude female models have a particularly strong attention-getting impact among male consumers

I'm sorry, Dr....err....Brian Thomas *MS but this does not turn me on, nor do I take it as "erotic" in any manner:

OMG...."Ardi" is pictured as......"NUDE".....!!!

Brian Thomas *MS......you are a loon.