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...dating back 14m years ...

Not 10 million, or 15 million, or 12.5 million, or "more than X million", but exactly 14 million. I see. Pardon my skepticism.

53 posted on 11/07/2005 9:32:20 AM PST by Fruitbat
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To: Fruitbat
Not 10 million, or 15 million, or 12.5 million, or "more than X million", but exactly 14 million. I see. Pardon my skepticism.

Hey! It's tough to nail this stuff down to a particular date. Why, since this "find" was reported a year ago, this little fella aged one million years. Course, what's one or two million years in the grand scheme of evolution? Peanuts, I tell you!

'Original' great ape discovered

Scientists have unearthed remains of a primate that could have been ancestral not only to humans but to all great apes, including chimps and gorillas. The partial skeleton of this 13-million-year-old "missing link" was found by palaeontologists working at a dig site near Barcelona in Spain.

104 posted on 11/07/2005 10:36:29 AM PST by Michael_Michaelangelo (The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory. Lots of links on my homepage...)
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