[SunkenCiv]

Ordinarily I avoid posting topics (or pinging to them) which are bound to become cr/evo bloodbaths, but this one is pretty interesting.

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Little foot,' an almost complete hominid skeleton

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

whoops, already posted, but it didn't show up in searches:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750246/posts

Sterkfontein showed up in a Google search for FR:

http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b47d7b94f92.htm#1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/691468/posts?page=12#12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1639463/posts?page=7#7

[GoLightly]

Thanx for the ping & I agree, it's interesting.

[Physicist]

The story of Little Foot's discovery is astonishing. A paleontologist was looking through some bone fragments from Sterkfontein and recognized some fragments as hominid. He sent his assistants to the cave with a broken end of a tibia, and they found the matching piece protruding from the cave wall, which was how the skeleton was found.

The sheer audacity of even attempting to find the matching piece in that cave boggles the mind.

[Physicist]

The fact that Little Foot is not himself a human ancestor illustrates evolution every bit as well as if he were. In the past, there were several species of hominid alive at the same time. The modern uniqueness of Homo sapiens makes it seem like we are far apart from the rest of the Tree of Life, but that was not always the case.