Fossil Find May Tweak Evolution Debate

cbsnews ^ | May 15, 2009

[JoeProBono]

47 Million-Year-Old Primate Skeleton Suggests Different Precursor To Monkeys, Apes, Humans:

A primate skeleton claimed to be 47 million years old could further amplify the often contentious debate between evolutionists and creationists.

A prominent paleontologist says the discovery of the ancient primate fossil suggests the creature is the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The find bolsters the less-popular stance that humans' ape-like ancestor was a precursor to the lemur - the tarsier, a tiny, bug-eyed primate in Asia, is more commonly thought of as the precursor, the Journal reports.

Dr. Philip Gingerich, the president-elect of the Paleontological Society in the U.S., will discuss the findings next week in an online journal. The fossil will be unveiled next week at New York's Museum of Natural History.

"This discovery brings a forgotten group into focus as a possible ancestor of higher primates," Mr. Gingerich, a professor of paleontology at the University of Michigan, told the Journal.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[JimSEA]

Cousin??

[WorkingClassFilth]

Maybe her kin: http://prudenceponder.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cynthia_mckinney.jpg

[PiltdownMan]

A primate skeleton claimed to be 47 million years old

BWAHAHAHA! That thing is eleventy-seventy-one million years old if it's a century. Believe me--I was THERE!

/ EXTREME sarcasm.

This concludes our science fiction junk science lesson of the day, kiddies.

[BigEdLB]

Cousins?



Possibly

[yazoo]

Comparing a fossil with a small subhuman brain to a furry little animal with big eyes is not good science.

[mrmeangenes]

This is even more stunning !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o

[tophat9000]

THE PATTY DUKE SHOW THEME

Meet Cathy, who’s lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Patty’s only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights — What a crazy pair!

But they’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.

Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control — What a wild duet!

Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike —
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Dustbunny]

Wonder why they did not say how much of the fossil they found.

[JoeProBono]

Dr. Philip Gingerich, the president-elect of the Paleontological Society in the U.S., will discuss the findings next week in an online journal. The fossil will be unveiled next week at New York's Museum of Natural History

[alstewartfan]

Are you saying that those chimp to man sketches in “biology” texts contain slight inaccuracies? Get those wagons in circular formation again, Boys! Bob

[Habibi]

“Cousin??”

Wow! This little guy is cute.

Well, cuter than the girls I used to date.