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Hobbit remains found in Australia
Reuters ^ | Wed, Oct 27, 2004 | Patricia Reaney

Posted on 10/27/2004 10:51:55 AM PDT by presidio9

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To: scory

Are big dogs smarter than small dogs?


61 posted on 10/27/2004 11:09:53 AM PDT by NYFriend
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To: RosieCotton

Oliver the chimp originally thought to be apossible "missing link."

62 posted on 10/27/2004 11:11:12 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

Oh look! It's an orc! Gotta be at least one scientist who would go along with that...


63 posted on 10/27/2004 11:12:38 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: Marysecretary
It probably WAS a chimp. I don't have too much faith in what these so called scientists find. They've been wrong before.

It seems like every time they find fossils of some new two-legged species, they immediately assume that we are direct descendants.

64 posted on 10/27/2004 11:13:59 AM PDT by nosofar
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To: Marysecretary

"It probably WAS a chimp. I don't have too much faith in what these so called scientists find. They've been wrong before."

I see. You must have information they don't have, then, I suppose. You've examined these remains and, in your expert judgment, have decided they are chimps. Is that correct?

Phooey! Anyone who studies primates can tell the difference between a chimp's bones and of a hominid's bones. I could even do it, and I'm not even in that field.

If you have a reason for thinking these are chimps, let's hear it. If you're just blowing smoke, well, never mind.


65 posted on 10/27/2004 11:14:05 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: presidio9

Some of the "evolving" into dwarf or larger sizes may only reflect long term (over many generations) differences in nutrition and nothing of a genetic nature at all.


66 posted on 10/27/2004 11:14:27 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

It is the monster thing from the ABC series "Lost"


68 posted on 10/27/2004 11:18:00 AM PDT by Bungarian
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To: presidio9

How did they get there from New Zealand?


69 posted on 10/27/2004 11:18:13 AM PDT by cookcounty (Kerry launched his career by trashing the VN Vets. He ends by trashing the NG. Such class.)
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To: presidio9

For the love of God, not another 47,000-post thread...please... (whimpering sounds coming from BtD's cube)


70 posted on 10/27/2004 11:19:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RosieCotton
had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans.

Actually, I think they've discovered the forerunners of today's Homo democratus.

71 posted on 10/27/2004 11:20:37 AM PDT by HenryLeeII ("How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for a shameless political stunt?" -Tony in Ohio)
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very cool...further proof to the existence of dwarves, gnomes, and hobbits! Elves tend not to leave behind any remains after their long lifespan ends.


72 posted on 10/27/2004 11:20:38 AM PDT by Legion04
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To: presidio9

Extinction from a volcano eruption? Nah - they survived Mt. Doom and faded into the west along the Strait Path to the Undying Lands, Evergreen...


73 posted on 10/27/2004 11:21:13 AM PDT by frithguild (2004 - The election of the Many Nights of the Broken Glass)
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To: ecurbh

They finally found poor old Deagol!


74 posted on 10/27/2004 11:21:16 AM PDT by Fedora (Trolls sleep--but I don't.)
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To: Billthedrill

Aw, you know you love us!


75 posted on 10/27/2004 11:21:20 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: tiamat; MEG33; Harmless Teddy Bear

long-lost cousin of yourn?


76 posted on 10/27/2004 11:22:23 AM PDT by King Prout (yo! sKerry: "Live by the flip, die by the flop." - Frank_Discussion)
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To: Darth Reagan

ping


77 posted on 10/27/2004 11:22:45 AM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: presidio9
Hmmmm...

Regards,
GtG

78 posted on 10/27/2004 11:23:33 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, but I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: byteback
"I'm Tom Daschle and I approved this discovery."

LOL!

79 posted on 10/27/2004 11:23:42 AM PDT by DestroytheDemocrats
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To: jriemer
And then you have your all-time classic Star Trek-LOTR double-whammy...
80 posted on 10/27/2004 11:25:16 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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