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Inglorious beginnings: Experts trace humanity's origins to ancient worm
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| March 5, 2012
| Jen Gerson
Posted on 03/05/2012 12:08:48 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced humanity's origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.Most Democrats never evolved beyond that.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:12:37 PM PST
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JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Only a few centimetres long, Pikaia was a slender eel-like animal with a pair of small antennae-like structures at the front of its tiny head. Possession of muscle blocks and a notochord suggest that this rare fossil belongs among the chordates, the group that includes fish, frogs, and humans.
Photograph by: Courtesy , J.B.Caron/Royal Ontario Museum Seeds of a spine? Clearly not the ancestor of modern republican congresscritters
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:14:24 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1140 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Free ThinkerNY
“It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced humanity’s origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.”
Uh no.
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03/05/2012 12:15:21 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Arrakis, here we come! Or is it Arrakis, from thence we comed?
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:22:04 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(obama kills)
To: JRios1968
fluke (n) - trematode, trematode worm
Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:22:15 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(How True ;)
To: Free ThinkerNY
CALGARY It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced Congressional Republican’s origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.
A team of researchers subjected the 505-million-year-old Burgess shale fossils of Pikaia gracilens to the latest technology and found evidence that could settle a decades-long debate about the primitive species.
Notably, that they had the seeds of a spine.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:22:40 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Free ThinkerNY
All known living things are genetically related ... and that includes bacteria.
From page 284 of Steve Jones' modern update of Darwin's "Origin of Species" and titled "Darwin's Ghost," we have ...
"One set of genes is found everywhere. It translates the information coded in the DNA and allows it to make proteins. The job is so essential that such structures changed little over millions of years."
To: Free ThinkerNY
If only we can invent a genesis that does not involve accountability to an omnipotent, omniscient, moral creator, then we can live as we like. This is why John Lennon wrote his song, "Imagine".
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:26:20 PM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I have millions of little swimming worms.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:26:25 PM PST
by
bunkerhill7
(worms swim?? Who knew?)
To: JRios1968
Most Democrats never evolved beyond that.I disagree....this also from the article: "Notably, that they had the seeds of a spine. "
Given that "A Spine" for any politician is a genetic anomaly, I'd think that the flatworm is a more advanced lifeform.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:26:30 PM PST
by
wbill
To: F15Eagle
All known living things are genetically related ... and that includes bacteria.
From page 284 of Steve Jones' modern update of Darwin's "Origin of Species" and titled "Darwin's Ghost," we have ...
"One set of genes is found everywhere. It translates the information coded in the DNA and allows it to make proteins. The job is so essential that such structures changed little over millions of years."
To: wbill
Given that "A Spine" for any politician is a genetic anomaly, I'd think that the flatworm is a more advanced lifeform. It is certainly possible that spinelessness is an advantageous trait that promotes incumbency.
To: mikrofon
Yes, but these types of worms cannot be sluts. ;-)
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:36:09 PM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: mikrofon
fluke (n) - trematode, trematode worm
Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
<-- Yup!
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:37:08 PM PST
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JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: Free ThinkerNY
There's another group of "experts" that thinks we're all descended from clams.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:37:41 PM PST
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ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
typical ‘science’ gibberish.....
To: Free ThinkerNY
Evolution is only a theory.
God said He took a rib from Adam and formed Eve. Every human since then is a descendent of Eve. So, humans did not evolve from a worm or apes or anything else.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:56:56 PM PST
by
Ecliptic
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