Thanks moose07.
Posted on 03/04/2015 10:18:28 AM PST by moose07
However, we are still looking for a human in the democrat party.
No Problem.
Chatter is what we’re here for. :)
Rumor has it that also discovered the first to gay dinosaurs at this site and decided to name them megasoreass and lickalotopuss. Only seems fitting I suppose.
“they challenge us to consider the very definition of what it is to be human”
Why?
“Why? “
It needs the whole paragraph to see his train of thought.
To me it looks as if he is being Philosophical.
“What is it that separates Humans from the rest of the Animal Kingdom...”
We’re defined by our abilities of remembering cause and effect episodes and reasoning about them—abilities decreasing in academics who avoid digging in Turkey.
Thanks moose07.
Climb it change to no more climb it.
They want to call too many species “human”. Is it genus Homo?... no. This is the jaw of an ape like Lucy (it doesn’t have the human flair to the jaw).
I read the article to see if there was an answer. Reference was made to the other fossilized plants and animals found in the vicinity indicating the age. Age can also be determined by finding fossils between layers of volcanic ash or lava because there is a way to date those layers. Some of those other fossil types may have been dated by that method. That fossil is much too old for Carbon 14.
Reconstructing an entire organism from a small fossil remnant (or non-fossil remnant, in the case of forensic science) was pioneered by Cuvier, who was a Young-Earth Creationist. So, I agree, not necessarily the most reliable method. Radiometric dating methods are used to date rock strata; radiocarbon dating is a radiometric method, but doesn’t work on rocks and doesn’t date stuff older than about 50K years.
““they challenge us to consider the very definition of what it is to be human”
Why?”
Oh! I know!
You see? It’s the slight curve of the jaw. It’s elegance. It suggests that the individual it belonged to was an artist! The wear on the teeth obviously suggests much gnashing of teeth in angst driven contemplations of the meaning of life as the artist painted on the walls of its cave such masterpieces as Piss Bison.
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