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Posted on 03/05/2012 1:34:49 PM PST by saganite
It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced humanity's origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.
A team of researchers subjected the 505-million-year-old Burgess shale fossils of Pikaia gracilens to the latest technology and found evidence that could settle a decades-long debate about the primitive species.
Notably, that they had the seeds of a spine.
"We can see and discern the positive location of the notochord and the nerve chord. This was not obvious at all, you needed these techniques to see it," said Jean-Bernard Caron, the curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.
(Excerpt) Read more at calgaryherald.com ...
Notably, that they had the seeds of a spine.
Rather like some republicans in congress...
This explains a lot.
This may help explain liberals.....
Are we talking about liberals here?
Beat me to it.
Helen “the humpback whale” Thomas strikes again.
Oh no! You mean my ex-wife was right about me?
guess that rules out God.
LOL
I was able to look very closely at the scientists who made these “discoveries/observations” and I cannot see the seeds of a brain in them.
Hardly. Speaking as a Jew, Genesis tells me who created us, and The Origin of Species tells me how.
you’re one of His people, right?
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