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3 million-year-old toddler could climb trees, study says
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | July 6, 2018 | Kimberly Hickok

Posted on 07/08/2018 5:20:41 PM PDT by ETL

More than 3 million years ago, our adult human ancestors were walking on two feet and didn't have the option of a fashionable baby sling to carry their kids around in.

Instead, Australopithecus afarensis toddlers had a special grasping toe that helped them hold on to their mothers and escape into the trees, reports a study published July 4 in Science Advances.

The evidence comes from DIK-1-1 — a relatively complete 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of a 2.5- to 3-year-old female Australopithecus afarensisdiscovered in Dikika, Ethiopia.

The skeleton, nicknamed Selam — after the word for peace in Ethiopia's official language of Amharic – includes the oldest and most complete foot bones of this species ever found.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: afarensis; crevo; dikika; ethiopia; fakescience; godsgravesglyphs; lucy; piltdownman; storkzilla
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To: ETL

my grandma lived to 99 and she couldn’t that!

Oh
Wait
My bad

Hold on, this “baby” was a chimp/ape, right?


21 posted on 07/08/2018 6:00:46 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("The past does not have to define the future")
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To: ETL

3 million years old...nonsense. Neither the earth nor humans are 3 million years old. No verifiable science involved in the “million years old” claims. All conjecture and supposition.


22 posted on 07/08/2018 6:02:22 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: ETL

Fake news for creation worship.

Posts like this for fifteen years now to evo-propagandize Christian FR?


23 posted on 07/08/2018 6:05:10 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("The past does not have to define the future")
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To: ETL

... Could be eleventy billion decades.
Junk science


24 posted on 07/08/2018 6:06:18 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("The past does not have to define the future")
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To: SheepWhisperer

GoreBull Warming is Junk Science. Not geology, astronomy, biology and palaeontology.


25 posted on 07/08/2018 6:10:31 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: PghBaldy

3 million year old toddler? That’s a shitload of diapers.


26 posted on 07/08/2018 6:27:59 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: ETL

Wasn’t a human. Just another attempt by scientists to disprove the Bible.


27 posted on 07/08/2018 6:38:45 PM PDT by robel
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To: PghBaldy

You beat me! It is nice to know I’m not the only one who sees things like that. The world is funny in mysterious ways.


28 posted on 07/08/2018 6:38:55 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: PghBaldy

You beat me! It is nice to know I’m not the only one who sees things like that. The world is funny in mysterious ways.


29 posted on 07/08/2018 6:40:27 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ETL

Maco-evolution is junk science.

The first and second laws of thermo-dynamics, which competely invalidate the above are not junk science, which is why they are called laws of physics.

Have a great night.
Respectfully not interested in one of the ego crevo banters.
Done this too many times. They are fruitless.

Some of us believe we were created in the image of God.
Others believe that the chimps at the zoo are distant aunts and uncles.

Respectfully


30 posted on 07/08/2018 7:29:46 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("The past does not have to define the future")
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To: dainbramaged

Exactly!


31 posted on 07/08/2018 7:38:05 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: ETL

Howard Cosell - see that monkey climb


32 posted on 07/08/2018 8:19:39 PM PDT by TRY ONE (I never got the memo changing the name of Global Warming to Klimate Change)
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To: familyop
Lefty chicks are good at climbing trees... I didn't think lefty girls liked wood.
33 posted on 07/08/2018 8:41:38 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: ETL

It’s a monkey.


34 posted on 07/08/2018 8:44:52 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

Oh look at you spoiling all the fun!


35 posted on 07/08/2018 8:49:29 PM PDT by Professional
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping?


36 posted on 07/08/2018 8:58:35 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: ETL

Sounds like my grand daughter after I give her a double espresso and turn her loose.


37 posted on 07/08/2018 10:17:26 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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To: ETL

Hey, good for him - I’m not even seventy yet, and I can barely climb the stairs.


38 posted on 07/09/2018 3:07:36 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: robel

Yes.


39 posted on 07/09/2018 3:11:22 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: a fool in paradise; TXnMA; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; ...
Thanks a fool in paradise and TXnMA.

40 posted on 07/09/2018 3:43:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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