Behold a fish:
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.
Behold a fish:
and... behold: a NON-fish:
(northern Pike, a freshwater denizen)
prehistoric zoophile porn!
Hey, a whale is a fish.
http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_texts_web1828=fish
"FISH, n. [L. piscis.]
1. An animal that lives in water. Fish is a general name for a class of animals subsisting in water, which were distributed by Linne into six orders. They breathe by means of gills, swim by the aid of fins, and are oviparous. Some of them have the skeleton bony, and others cartilaginous. Most of the former have the opening of the gills closed by a peculiar covering, called the gill-lid; many of the latter have no gill-lid, and are hence said to breathe through apertures. Cetaceous animals, as the whale and dolphin, are, in popular language, called fishes, and have been so classed by some naturalists; but they breathe by lungs, and are viviparous, like quadrupeds. The term fish has been also extended to other aquatic animals, such as shell-fish, lobsters, &c. We use fish, in the singular, for fishes in general or the whole race."
He actually quoted that entire definition already. Somehow, he thought it helped his case...
Sorry, but I couldn't stand reading everything. It was interesting to find the online dictionary.
I'm always amused by people who think dictionaries define reality, as opposed to common word usage.
This is about all this thread deserves with whales = fish.
Great post.
Quite a bit, actually.
Another fish. Also known as manatee ;)
If you are so willing to extrapolate a rejection of science from a commitment to question science, who knows what other ideas you are able to extrapolate out of whole cloth.
. . . the microwave experiment . . .
Thank you for refreshing my memory about the context. That thread included not only the matter of how we can measure whether the speed of light is constant, but also the assertion on my part that most people take the word of others as true when they declare what the speed of light is. I stand by that assertion. While most people may have a magnetron in their home, they do not typically use them to measure the speed of light. Maybe they do in your neighborhood. May I ask whether science had discovered the entire electromagnetic spectrum?
All the laws and theories of physics have no meaning in such conditions.
So we've moved from a condition in which the laws of physics do not apply to a condition in which they do. Was this a transition so sudden that the speed of light instantly assumed a constant rate? It seems to me a more reasonable view is that it changed at an exponential rate from the very moment there was such a thing as light. May I ask, how long has mankind been measuring and recording the rate of pulsars? Over what percentage of the earth's history?
Busbee Berkley in aqua.
um... it is a poultry popsicle!
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