Posted on 10/01/2009 9:29:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way.
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Where is the “Not this Sh*t Again Guy”?
Every six months now they find the “missing link”, so they can publish some more fantasy
IBCREVOATTAX!
Ummm, long-ago common ancestor? Like Adam or Eve?
Artie? I knew him well..................
A 4,400,000 year old skeleton on a 5,849 year old earth?
How can it be?
I am so confused!
Where’s Carl Baugh or Kent Hovind when you need some good solid science? /sarc
Neither fit for climbing or walking? Then according to Darwinist theory what would natural selection have selected and why?
Sounds lke an ad hoc story made to incorporate a few bones.
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Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex?
Posted Oct 1,2009
Among Ardipithecus’s ancestors, such a strategy could catch on if searching for food required a lot of time and exposure to predators. Males would be far more successful food-providers if they had their hands free to carry home loads of fruits and tubers—which would favor walking on two legs. Females would come to prefer good, steady providers with smaller canines over the big fierce-toothed ones who left as soon as they spot another fertile female. The results, says Lovejoy, are visible in Ardipithecus, which had small canines even in males and walked upright. ..............................
National Geographic’s Science Editor, Jamie Shreeve”
Sounds lke an ad hoc story made to incorporate a few bones.
“Just-so story
From Wikipedia,
A just-so story, also called the ad hoc fallacy, is a term used in academic anthropology, biological sciences, social sciences, and philosophy. It describes an unverifiable and unfalsifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice or a biological trait or behavior of humans or other animals. The use of the term is an implicit criticism that reminds the hearer of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation. Such tales are common in folklore and mythology (where they are known as etiological myths — see etiology).”
That’s an Ugliosaurus Reeks.
I always find it funny when people bash science and call it propaganda, while insisting the world is only 6000 years old. Hahahahaha
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