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.
Oh, come on now!Good, you should have no problem answering post 50. (Substitute "just an animal" for "just an ape".)There is not one so-called 'transitional' skull that can be proved to be a transitional skull.
It is either a human skull or an animal one.
Really?
The Bible has shown itself to be accurate on everything it speaks of, both historically and scientifically.
Do you know that the idea of anesthesia came from a scientist reading Genesis and seeing how God put Adam into a deep sleep?
Same with washing of hands to keep infections down.
See Leviticus.
Ofcourse, when these two scientists put forth these discoveries they were attacked and ridiculed by the 'great' scientific communities of their day.
The fool has said in his heart there is no God. (Psa.14:1)
Allow me to clarify: You're "playing" with "terms" because you're using ones the poster doesn't understand. Kindly limit your vocabulary to words used by Jack Chick.
If I were a homo habilis, I'd be insulted.
I take it, then, that you buy the WJB assertion that humans are not mammals?
No they aren't.
That is where the 'new' terms come in.
A man is not an animal.
So, the transitional species would be a kind of both, now wouldn't he/it? Yes, but there would be no point at which the species is not "animal". Humans are classified as part of the kingdom Animalia. So the evolutionists are looking for something that is neither completely animal or human. This is not accurate. The specimen would in fact be completely animal.
No, the thing would be neither be animal nor human.
It would be a transition from the one to the other.
Once, again playing games with terms.
But leaving aside the word games, it would be a transition from an ape to a man, an intermediate creature which does not exist, nor ever existed.
These are the transition creatures that the fossil record was suppose to show but never did, so now you are looking at skulls.
How many legs does a locust have?
Does a hare chew its cud?
Are bats and birds the same?
Please state the corroborating evidence for a world wide flood.
Wrong! I've heard the term "missing link" for forty years used by all sorts of people.
Yeah, it really nailed it with the whole 'sun stopping for a day' thing. I've seen that one myself many times.
"Er..." he said, "hello. Er, look, I'm sorry I'm a bit late. I've had the most ghastly time, all sorts of things cropping up at the last moment."- The Great Prophet Zarquon
He seemed nervous of the expectant awed hush. He cleared his throat.
"Er, how are we for time?" he said, "have I just got a min-"
And so the Universe ended.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...same old crap....what's that name for agenda research?
Are we evolving into something else was my question. Dna does not evolve does it? It only mutates into a disease? Environmental adaptation was not the question. Real adaptation would be those living in the northern states to start growing coats of fur for the winter months.
So... that leaves vegetable or mineral. Which is it? :-)
Seriously, I want you to take the survey in post 50. Since there are no transitionals between ape and human, it should be easy.
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