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Scientists find 'oldest human ancestor'
BBC.com ^ | January 30, 2017 | Pallab Ghosh

Posted on 01/30/2017 6:30:05 PM PST by plain talk

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To: plain talk

Looks more like an early prototype of a Dalek.


21 posted on 01/30/2017 6:53:32 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: plain talk

Looks like Helen Thomas.


22 posted on 01/30/2017 6:58:01 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
What, they haven’t given it a cute human name and published all manner of speculative drawings showing how cute it is, cavorting around cutely? They’re always cute, you know.


23 posted on 01/30/2017 7:00:30 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: plain talk

if you listen really carefully you can hear it say: “Get off my lawn!”


24 posted on 01/30/2017 7:23:36 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: plain talk

Reminds me of my ex-wife!


25 posted on 01/30/2017 7:24:46 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: plain talk

Its a minion.. a throwback in the Simpsons genepool,, No, Its an early Carville..


26 posted on 01/30/2017 7:25:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: plain talk

CHRISTIANS, it is high time to celebrate BIBLICAL CREATION.

http://biblehub.com/childrens/The_Story_of_Creation.htm


27 posted on 01/30/2017 7:25:47 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: plain talk

Above is a closer ancestor, Nickname: Lucy's species Where Lived: Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania) When Lived: Between about 3.85 and 2.95 million years ago. Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human species—paleoanthropologists have uncovered remains from more than 300 individuals! Found between 3.85 and 2.95 million years ago in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), this species survived for more than 900,000 years, which is over four times as long as our own species has been around. It is best known from the sites of Hadar, Ethiopia (‘Lucy’, AL 288-1 and the 'First Family', AL 333); Dikika, Ethiopia (Dikika ‘child’ skeleton); and Laetoli (fossils of this species plus the oldest documented bipedal footprint trails). Similar to chimpanzees, Au. afarensis children grew rapidly after birth and reached adulthood earlier than modern humans. This meant Au. afarensis had a shorter period of growing up than modern humans have today, leaving them less time for parental guidance and socialization during childhood.

Au. afarensis had both ape and human characteristics: members of this species had apelike face proportions (a flat nose, a strongly projecting lower jaw) and braincase (with a small brain, usually less than 500 cubic centimeters -- about 1/3 the size of a modern human brain), and long, strong arms with curved fingers adapted for climbing trees. They also had small canine teeth like all other early humans, and a body that stood on two legs and regularly walked upright. Their adaptations for living both in the trees and on the ground helped them survive for almost a million years as climate and environments changed.

28 posted on 01/30/2017 7:41:49 PM PST by entropy12 (Enough winning Mr President already! I am getting tired of all these wins! (not).)
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To: plain talk

so That’s where pimples came from!


29 posted on 01/30/2017 7:44:32 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you." President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: plain talk

Looks a little like Chuckie Schumer -— minus the tears.


30 posted on 01/30/2017 8:03:19 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: plain talk

I’d recognize Hillary’s clan anywhere.


31 posted on 01/30/2017 8:03:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: plain talk

“The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.”

They just found a tiny Democrat.


32 posted on 01/30/2017 8:13:50 PM PST by Crucial
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To: caver; plain talk; BroJoeK; JimSEA; NorthMountain; piytar

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Real scientists are rarely called scientists.

The media are making the exaggerated claim that they are scientists because their methodology is deeply unscientific.

No worry. Beginning in about 6 months, truth is going to begin pouring out at a phenomenal rate, and all these hucksters will begin to wet their pants.
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33 posted on 01/30/2017 8:23:18 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Way beyond mere fiction.
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34 posted on 01/30/2017 8:25:18 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

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Most pertinent comment award for this thread!
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35 posted on 01/30/2017 8:28:08 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: plain talk

My aunt and uncle are 96 and 95 years old.
That is as close as I can get to this ancestor.....


36 posted on 01/30/2017 8:43:00 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: plain talk

An ancestor of a lamprey, maybe?


37 posted on 01/30/2017 9:33:39 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? My tag line dissappeared. ???)
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To: plain talk
Where have I seen that mouth before?


38 posted on 01/30/2017 9:42:46 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: plain talk
I found the oldest human ancestor in my back yard, "exquisitely well preserved".
39 posted on 01/30/2017 9:46:52 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: a fool in paradise

“Hello, m’honey! Hello, m’baby! Hello, my ragtime gal!
Send me a kiss by wire! Baby, my heart’s on fire!
If you refuse me, honey, you lose me. Then I’ll be all alone...
So, baby, call me and tell me I’m your own!”


40 posted on 01/30/2017 9:54:34 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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