[[Most readers of the headlines would be unaware of the way in which the fossil bits and pieces were scattered over a distance greater than 1½ kilometres!]]
So let’s see- they find fragments scattered over almost a mile, plop them altogether, and create a skull out of pieces, and htis is the ‘closest relative’ we have? A walk i n the woods in a 1 mile radius would find many fragments of bones from many species- and one could collext the fragments and cobble together anythign they wish
They are talking about ‘Ardi’ as though it was a bunch of fragments all foundi n one spot, as though all the pieces belong to hte same ‘individual’ but how the heck can they know it was from one individual? Cripes- in a one mile radius, it’s VERY likely that all those fragments came from different ‘individuals’ and even from different time periods.
“In summary, the results of this objective statistical study suggest that the AME-VP-1/71 bone had scant similarity to human bone, was dissimilar to baboon bone and was most dissimilar to chimpanzee bone. The baboon bone was similar to the chimpanzee and dissimilar to human bone. The chimpanzee was most dissimilar to humans. Human bone had no similarity to monkey or ape bone. Therefore, these objective ancestry analyses for fossil bones suggest that the conclusion of Haile-Selassie and Robinson, that Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba was an ancestor of apes and humans that walked on two legs, is farfetched speculation.”
‘Far fetched speculation’? Cripes! I’ll say! Take a bunch of skull fragments from many individual pigs of different size, shape etc that are scattered over a one mile radius, assemble them in a hodge podge manner, and you’re goign to have soemthign compeltely different from what actualy existed- that’s essentially what they did here- there is NO WAY they could know these fragments all came form one individual, yet they throw the gragments all together and declare they’ve ‘found an individual specimen’ ‘Far Fetched’? Try pure fantasy!
“So let’s see- they find fragments scattered over almost a mile, plop them altogether, and create a skull out of pieces, and htis is the ‘closest relative’ we have? A walk i n the woods in a 1 mile radius would find many fragments of bones from many species- and one could collext the fragments and cobble together anythign they wish.”
The reason the remains were scattered about is because they were ape men suicide bombers.