Chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs 6 million years ago

Pennsylvania State University ^ | 02 September 2004 | News Office Staff

[PatrickHenry]

Here's a link to the photos: Bone Reconstructions and Tomographic Photos.

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[Jeff Chandler]

So? My dogs can walk for quite a while on their hind legs if I hold a piece of food up over their heads.

[ProudVet77]

Earliest and most intelligent demo voters known.

[PatrickHenry]

The thread's already moved to "Chat."

[sandydipper]

Wuz that before or after Adam ate the apple??

[Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok]

Wow they really found a whole part of a piece of one bone? ...........And from that they can reconstruct what Senator Byrd may have looked like a thousand years ago.

Notice how they use words like "neck" and "head" to describe the different parts of this one bone fragment. To read it quickly u might get the impression they found a whole skeleton.

[gcruse]

So? My dogs can walk for quite a while on their hind legs if I hold a piece of food up over their heads.

Are you saying there must have been another creature that followed the earliest hominids around, holding the hominid's food up over their heads?

[PeterFinn]

Michael Moore?

[VadeRetro]

Waiting for AiG or ICR to announce the find as "an allegedly 6 million years old fully anatomically modern human." (Or maybe one or both will scream "An ape! Just an ape!")

[flashbunny]

The title said chimp sized, not BLIMP sized!

[PatrickHenry]

Waiting for AiG or ICR to announce ...

No need. If the news is buried in the "Chat" forum, no one will know about it.

[exit82]

What a crock! Everyone who is anyone in the scientific community knows it isn't a day over five million years ago.

I hate when scientific gadflys exaggerate like that./s/off;)

[LiteKeeper]

We have solid evidence of the earliest upright posture and bipedalism securely dated to six million years."

And that evidence is...?

[Jeff Chandler]

>>Are you saying there must have been another creature that followed the earliest hominids around, holding the hominid's food up over their heads?<<

No, I just like to talk about my dogs.

[jennyp]

And that evidence is...? ...in the article.

[PatrickHenry]

Welcome to the Chat Forum, home of FR's liveliest threads.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Interesting article, thanks Patrick.

[Jalapeno]

thanks for the ping, as always.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!