NEW species of early 'human' 3,000,000+ years old? We've known about this for a long, long tome...
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answer me this. How does a jaw bone survive for millions of years?
Clintons are part cat family because they are always lion and full of cheetahs.
All Obama voters.
I instantly worry about the science when I see a “local” name like that.
Is this guy (woman?) actually qualified?
Or, is he an Affirmative Action hire?
And it's not just about race with me.
The Russians discovered an ancient shipwreck off Crimea quite recently. I wince in pain thinking about those drunken fools recovering, preserving, or analyzing rare artifacts. The Russians drilled into a pristine, sub-glacial lake in Antarctica last year and “discovered” new life forms. The Americans and the Brits are doing the same thing on smaller lakes, and they make almost super-human efforts to avoid contamination. The Russians just basically drilled a hole in the ice, pumped out some water, then put it under a microscope.
I get the same feeling when ISIS and the Taliban destroy irreplaceable structures and relics in Syria and Afghanistan.
Noticing the pic of people stooping over the dirt...and the article kind of gives the impression that was the place it was found...but I can’t see how it could be unless there was some unusual way to date it. As I understand it the normal way would be through the igneous rock layers it was found in...but if it was just found in the dirt???
Everyone’s seen how members of some families can bear a strong resemblance to others in their immediate and extended families. A robust jaw with smaller teeth might only be evidence of that since there aren’t any other examples of this allegedly ‘new’ species to compare this group’s to.
So, maybe this is not really a previously undiscovered species of human but an example of family members of the already established species who physically resembled each other, however atypical of examples of the established species.
Ok, Dems, no, you cannot put them on the voter rolls.
3 million years old. Why not just make it 20 million what the heck. :-)
If Australopithecus deyiremeda lived at the same time as Lucy, they should consider calling it Linus.