Another Branch of Human Ancestors Reported

NY Times ^ | March 5, 2004 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

[Pharmboy]

"We are generalizing far too much, with not very many fossils spread over a long period of time."

The voice of reason...

[Pharmboy]

Ping

[PatrickHenry]

PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]

[mewzilla]

The Lumpers Vs. The Splitters. Who needs the WWF? :)

[general_re]

"We are generalizing far too much, with not very many fossils spread over a long period of time."

A prediction: sometime in the next five or ten years, we'll all be looking back to find the context of this line, due to the fact that some quote miner has decided to add Dr. Walker to the "list" of scientists who disagree with the entire theory of evolution.

[Recovering_Democrat]

The extra chromosome wing of the Democrat Party?? :)

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Notice how they never show you a picture, nor give you a physical description, of how much "evidence" they are analyzing? That's because it's probably less than a handful of fragments - and they realize that if the general public understood just how much guessing these "scientists" do in forming these anti-creationism theories, they would get laughed out of the convention.

[from occupied ga]

Here is the ancestor of the Republican:

[VadeRetro]

It's for the Lord, you know.

[js1138]

Predicting that creationists will attempt to discredit science by quoting out of context? That's a tautaulogy, not a prediction.

I predict that we will be asked once more, where are the the intermediates.

[general_re]

What can I say? The tea leaves never fail, even if that's only because they concentrate entirely on the obvious ;)

[adam_az]

"Notice how they never show you a picture, nor give you a physical description, of how much "evidence" they are analyzing?"

I do notice that your lack of curiosity led you to make that statement without googling, just for the sake of promulgating the idea that there is a big C O N spiracy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1434099.stm

[adam_az]

bump@!

[balrog666]

Gramps!

[whattajoke]

HA! a few tiny bone fragments... see, these guys don't know nothin. I want a QuickTime movie of this so called hominid precursor in full color, and only then might I believe it!

NY Times article, Berkeley professor, a guy nameed Dr. Haile-Selassie (Rastafarian, no doubt, surely anti-Christian)... obviously a conspiracy! Heavens.

/creationist mode.

[AdmSmith]

... and here is a partial DNA-sequence of the ancestor of the Democrats
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=555870

[from occupied ga]

LOL - way too far up the evolutionary chain.

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe it was a failed attempt to evolve. Perhaps it was Australopithecus Jihadicus....

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Heh that's less than a handful of bones, like I figured.

[Consort]

Dr. Haile-Selassie said the shapes and wear patterns of six teeth in particular were "significant in understanding how the dentition evolved from an apelike common ancestor into the earliest hominids."

His brother, Prof Haile-Unlikely, disagrees.