Maybe if you were lucky.
Posted on 03/24/2006 11:47:46 AM PST by The_Victor
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A hominid skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race, a scientist said on Friday.
The cranium, found near the city of Gawis, 500 km (300 miles) southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, is estimated to be 200,000 to 500,000 years old.
The skull appeared "to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens," Sileshi Semaw, an Ethiopian research scientist at the Stone Age Institute at Indiana University, told a news conference in Addis Ababa.
It was discovered two months ago in a small gully at the Gawis river drainage basin in Ethiopia's Afar region, southeast of the capital.
Sileshi said significant archaeological collections of stone tools and numerous fossil animals were also found at Gawis.
"(It) opens a window into an intriguing and important period in the development of modern humans," Sileshi said.
Over the last 50 years, Ethiopia has been a hot bed for archaeological discoveries.
Hadar, located near Gawis, is where in 1974 U.S. scientist Donald Johnson found the 3.2 million year old remains of "Lucy," described by scientists as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world.
Lucy is Ethiopia's world-acclaimed archaeological find. The discovery of the almost complete hominid skeleton was a landmark in the search for the origins of humanity.
On the shores of what was formerly a lake in 1967, two Homo sapien skulls dating back 195,000 years were unearthed. The discovery pushed back the known date of mankind, suggesting that modern man and his older precursor existed side by side.
Sileshi said while different from a modern human, the braincase, upper face and jaw of the cranium have unmistakeable anatomical evidence that belong to human ancestry.
"The Gawis cranium provides us with the opportunity to look at the face of one of our ancestors," he added.
Maybe if you were lucky.
A Jack Chick tract.
??? Because it's the ideal test case as to whether REAL patterns are being found in the fossil history, or whether (as your hypothesis suggests) they are just being imposed on the data. If the former then faked evidence should NOT fit in with the real evidence. If the later then it wouldn't matter.
Fester,
Patrick Henry is of the opinion that there is no point to a CREVO thread if it gets taken off the mainforum lineup, as these backroom sessions get few lurkers (thus, no fence-sitters to whom a good dose of science will be of benefit) and there is essentially ZERO chance that anyone entrenched on either side will change his stance through discussion.
there was no call for you to get personal about it, Fester
Wrong, when the antievo's make statements, it is never their job to back them up.
Right, ftd?
Well, yeah. Either that or we're laughing too hard at the creatoid parade and freak show to stand up and walk away from the computer.
FTD will NOT be doing Jenny's test. That would support or refute his or her unsupported statements. And anti-evos do not, unlike everyone else in forum, back up or support their statements.
Ah. So you admit to being a biased scientist, just out looking to grub up government grants! Your opinions should be ignored.
(...says the aerospace engineer working for a NASA contractor)
And just why do we need "scientist archaeologist's" anyway! Everything is all described in the Bible.
(....says the quality engineer manufacturing human implantable devices)
Depends on the meaning of the symbols "8" and "22".
/postfestermodernism>
Show me a transitory fossil from one life form into another life form.
pick a fossil, any fossil.
got one?
good.
guess what? you have chosen a deviation from its population's statistical norm. If it had descendants, then its fossilized remains fit your requirements.
Renewal is not change. each generation does not bring change. If it does on a minuscule basis how many billions of years did it take for man to evolve to what we are today?
Preachers do enjoy a wider audience. How many conversions does the Worldwide Church of Evolution boast of this evening? The Church of Organized Matter and Intelligent Design is running exactly as planned.
Let see if I pick a fossil of a oyster are you telling me that some day that oysters descendant would be a polar bear?
One question what have you been smoking how much is it and can I buy some?
It's called "Zinjanthropos Weed."
Nope.
One question what have you been smoking how much is it and can I buy some?
judging by the puerile inanities and addled non-sequiturs you offer instead of thought, I suspect you are too young to legally smoke anything.
No. We would assure you that NONE of it's descendents were bears (or any sort of mammal, or tetrapod for that matter).
(...or chordate)
really - the quality of creationist non-sequitur seems to have fallen off badly since Dover
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