Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21128254.000-stone-age-toe-could-redraw-human-family-tree.html ^ | Wednesday, August 10, 2011 | Colin Barras

[HereInTheHeartland]

20 posts and no Helen Thomas picture yet?
Wow, this place is slipping.

[tlb]

>>> Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

And just imagine the excitement when they find the nose.

[Tainan]

It has been said...

Pääbo is very wily.

[Constitution Day]

:) I would say it’s in my top five as well!

‘Blazing Saddles’ is #1.

[Constitution Day]

Very much so!

[SunkenCiv]

That’s just B.S.

[SunkenCiv]

:'D

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[SunkenCiv]

That was predicted by Nostrildamus.

[pabianice]

Sounds like a Russian Piltdown Man.

[mountainlion]

One bone does not a species make

One tooth made Nebraska man! At least until it turned into a pig tooth.

[pabianice]

I’ve heard speculation that the Elephant Man might have been a one-of and had Elepahnt Man’s Desease. Because his skeleton was boiled before it went on display, no DNA remains. Too bad.

[blueunicorn6]

“has written extensively on hominin foot bone morphology” - another damn graffiti artist.

[mountainlion]

One of my favorite sites is Technology Review by MIT. I like hard science. Global warming, environmentalism and for the most part evolution are more hype than fact. They are theory built on theory on theory... Fraud and hoax damage the science in these areas. Hard science can be repeated over and over. Theory is easily replaced by another theory.

[TheOldLady]

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[ThanhPhero]

I always thought they should have remains of at least a couple of individuals from different locations before they start naming species.

[SunkenCiv]

Science is a method, not a body of knowledge. It’s a very good method for figuring out things formerly unknown via the syllogism.

OTOH, global warming is entirely political in origin and is sustained by politics only.

[SunkenCiv]

Piltdown Man was a deliberate fraud; Nebraska Man wasn’t a fraud, it was a misidentification that wasn’t used to argue in favor of a primitive American hominid by its discoverer, or by anyone else until so-called creationists created the straw man version of Nebraska Man. That happened because creationism is, like global warming, a political scam being passed off as science.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_nebraska.html
http://members.cox.net/ardipithecus/evol/lies/lie020.html

[mountainlion]

I choose Creationism. I have personal experience in the supernatural and there is something there that can not be explained by evolution. I choose to believe that I came form God and have hope for a good afterlife and not hopelessness of coming from green slime with no hope or direction.