Ancient Jawbone Could Shake Up Fossil Record [ Australopithecus anamensis ]

National Geographic News ^ | Friday the 13th, July 2007 | Nick Wadhams

[js1138]

Saying a specific fossil is a “direct ancestor” is a bit like saying that since someone is of Austrian descent, Mozart must be a direct ancestor.

[Non-Sequitur]

Saying a specific fossil is a “direct ancestor” is a bit like saying that since someone is of Austrian descent, Mozart must be a direct ancestor.

I think it's a little more specific than that. We're talking about species and their predecessors.

[js1138]

I think it's a little more specific than that. We're talking about species and their predecessors.

Actually, that doesn't change what I said. Lucy's tribe could be cousins and not an ancestors.

[ASA Vet]

Thank you sir, that’s why one should always check with a subject matter expert.

[oldsalt]

When they invent time travel...

If time travel is possible then it has already been invented...nicht wahr?

[Tribune7]

Jawbones from an early human ancestor

If it's from a Democrat it could prove the story of Samson.

[4CJ]

The following chart illustrates how this can occur.

You choose to believe that your ancestors were apes, I'll believe that God created mine in His own image ;o)

[tet68]

Pretty gnarly molars there, the canines seem to be missing though.

[editor-surveyor]

That’s a lovely picture of a monkey mouth there; certainly not in any way human, by any contortion of the imagination.

[Elsie]

Ancient Jawbone Could Shake Up Fossil Record [ Australopithecus anamensis ]

Or not....

[SunkenCiv]

That was an incisive observation...

[tet68]

Touche.

Still it seems odd that an earlier ancestor would have such large molars if they were predominantly meat eaters.

[razzle]

This will end up as it always does, some Chinese peasant gluing together some old bones to make a buck off the idiot evos.

[LiteKeeper]

Don’t forget, evolutionist (particularly, evolutionary paleontologists) are master story tellers. Words like, “appears”, “could be”, “might be”, etc, are standard in their vocabulary.

[onedoug]

Physical anthropology/Biblical bump

[Coyoteman]

That’s a lovely picture of a monkey mouth there; certainly not in any way human, by any contortion of the imagination.

Wrong, as usual.

Did you note the angle of the two rows of teeth? Were they parallel, or more parabolic?

It makes a difference, you know.

Or, I guess you don't know.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SunkenCiv]

I agree.

[taxesareforever]

Front teeth appear to be gone. Might have been a cob of corn eater.