Posted on 04/12/2006 12:21:23 PM PDT by Sofa King
LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution. ADVERTISEMENT
The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of Australopithecus known as Au. anamensis, an ape-man creature that walked on two legs.
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I am aware of the find of malleable tissue -- though it should be noted that the tissue only became malleable after a rehydration process -- however, I am unaware that any DNA was recovered from the tissue.
But we have read it on FR, so it must be true.
Your link not only confirms your claim of Dinosaur DNA, it also says Darwin believed the human body was composed of just one cell.
"Your link not only confirms your claim of Dinosaur DNA, it also says Darwin believed the human body was composed of just one cell."
Which he claimed as he recanted on his deathbed.
I always remember that every time another Australopithicene is found.
Ah, but re-read what the press release says:
The fossils are from the most primitive species of Australopithecus, known as Au. anamensis, and date from about 4.1 million years ago ...Did you catch that? This fossil was more primitive as well as older than any previous Australopithecus fossil. Yet they're still classifying it as an Australopithecus anamensis. They didn't declare a new species name for this find.The most famous of the Australopithecine fossils was "Lucy," a 3.5-foot adult skeleton discovered in the Afar depression in 1974. Her analytical team included White. Subsequently named Au. afarensis, this hominid, which lived between 3.6 and 3 million years ago, was also discovered in the Middle Awash study area, where the new Au. anamensis fossils were found.
Ardipithecus, on the other hand, was discovered by White and his team in 1992, based on fossils from Aramis, a village in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar rift. White and his team named the 4. 4 million-year-old fossils Ardipithecus ramidus.
The relationship between Australopithecus and Ardipithecus remained unclear, however, because of a million-year gap between these two genera. The new fossil finds, jawbones and teeth from each of two localities, bridge that gap. With Ardipithecus in older rocks and Au. afarensis in overlying rocks, the newly announced fossils are intermediate in time and anatomy.
You know, the debates between those who tend to split the finds up into separate species and those who tend to merge them into existing species makes for an ironic parallel with creationists: While creationists can't agree among themselves on where the impenetrable barrier lies between the "ape kind" and the "human kind", mainstream scientists can't agree among themselves sometimes on where to draw the lines between species & even families. It's those darn transitional fossils' fault. They keep showing up and revealing an insensible gradation between similar finds.
If only the fossil record was so neat & divided as the creationists insist it is. Life would be a lot simpler. :-)
LOL, Nebraska. Man, that's a funny picture!
I guess I better go down with my thread :(
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Following the discovery of 70-million-year-old soft tissue from a Tyrannosaurus rex less than a month ago, the same group of researchers announced today they not only have isolated dinosaur DNA -- the blueprint of life -- but implanted the DNA into a growing frog embryo.
If scientists are successful, the resulting creature may look like a cross between a traditional frog and it's much, much older -- and far more dangerous -- ancient cousin, said lead researcher Mary Schweitzer Higby of South Carolina State University.
Using traditional techniques, Higby said that following the discovery of the soft tissue, and the resulting DNA contained inside the ancient cells and blood vessles, the door was essentially opened for attempting to create life with dinosaur traits.
http://www.dansjp3page.com/cnn_dinosaur_dna_said_implanted.htm
Dinosaur DNA Said Implanted Into FrogThat's embarassing.
Friday, April 1, 2005
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"It does sound something out of a sci-fi movie, but I assure you this is no April Fool's joke," Higby said.
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Nice dateline.
You always find something to complain about, don't you? Must have driven your mother crazy!
Bolding mine.She added that if the creature inside the frog grows to be too large for the frog's womb, they have researchers on hand to remove the embryo and continue it's gestation outside the frog, similar to techniques performed at Duke University's School of Medicine.
Apparently frogs have just one cell, as Darwin said years ago.
You always find something to complain about, don't you? Must have driven your mother crazy!
That's the bust rebuttal you have?
"That's the bust rebuttal you have?"
What does my bust have to do with this thread????
Central American Songbird Provides Confirmation of Intelligent Design
Funny April fools article. How about a real one that says that DNA was taken from a dinosaur? You didn't just make that up now, did ya? :)
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