Posted on 04/14/2013 9:54:40 AM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
A collection of prehuman skeletons has sparked intrigue and debate in the scientific community, eliciting calls to redraw — or at least reconsider — mankind's evolutionary map.
On Friday, an international team of researchers will publish their latest findings on Australopithecus sediba — a uniquely puzzling prehuman species that lived nearly 2 million years ago. Led by Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, the research reveals new insights about the way Au. sediba walked, chewed, and moved, lending support to Berger's claim that the species is a direct human ancestor.
Experts have long identified Homo habilis as the most likely ancestor to Homo erectus — the precursor to modern man — but Berger’s research points to an alternate lineage. Au. sediba predated Homo habilis by nearly 100,000 years, according to some estimates, and its "mosaic" blend of ape and human qualities suggests a different evolution from human ancestors (known as hominins) to our own Homo genus.
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For me Einstein [ a real scientist ] trumps Darwin [ not really any advanced degrees in scientific thought nor original ideas ] every which way. See gravitational time dilation for another perspective regarding how old starlight may not actually be that old.
Or better yet read the book ‘Starlight and Time’ by Russell Humphreys.
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