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'Peking Man' older than thought
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| 11 Mar 2009
| Paul Rincon
Posted on 03/12/2009 9:16:42 AM PDT by BGHater
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:16:43 AM PDT
by
BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
ping. Only 200K year revision.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:17:50 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
To: BGHater
Well, I say they are 10 Million years old.
Can anyone prove me right or wrong?
To: BGHater
an interesting article. Thanks.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:21:25 AM PDT
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: BGHater
ping. Only 200K year revision.The dating is kind of difficult given that the fossils were destroyed in World War II in 1941.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:23:44 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: BGHater
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:24:59 AM PDT
by
woollyone
(I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
To: Retired Greyhound
Well, I say they are 10 Million years old. Can anyone prove me right or wrong?Prove? No. But we can supply considerable evidence to show that you're way off. Again, the estimate is difficult to make here because the fossils were destroyed 68 years ago.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:25:07 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: woollyone
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:26:03 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: BGHater; blam; SunkenCiv; thefactor
Thanks for posting. However, unless I am misunderstanding the "out of Africa" anthropologists and their fellow travelers, Peking Man and other
Homo erecti contributed NOTHING to modern humans, as every
Homo sapiens ancestor came out of Africa around 200k years ago.
While Milton Wolpoff at UMich and other regionalists maintain that these pre-humans DID contribute, the OOA ideologues think Peking Man was a dead end (even though they have some anatomical traits shared by modern Asians).
Am I missing something here?
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:27:10 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must...)
To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:27:23 AM PDT
by
woollyone
(I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
To: BGHater
Great! Has he applied for Medicare yet? He’d better hurry!
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:30:05 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
To: woollyone
peking man hoaxI think you're confusing it with Piltdown Man. Peking Man definitely isn't a hoax. I've never even heard creationists make that claim.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:31:15 AM PDT
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Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: BGHater
The pre-war Peking Man fossils vanished in 1941 whilst being transported to the US for safekeeping. Luckily, the palaeontologist Franz Weidenreich had made casts for researchers to study. SNIP
This method is based on the radioactive decay of unstable forms, or isotopes, of the elements aluminium and beryllium in quartz grains. This enabled them to get a more precise age for the fossils.
I imagine this is mostly an example of a writing problem by a journalist, but ... wouldn't dating via radioactive decay show these items to date from shortly before 1941?
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:32:48 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(American Revolution II -- overdue)
To: ClearCase_guy
I imagine this is mostly an example of a writing problem by a journalist, but ... wouldn't dating via radioactive decay show these items to date from shortly before 1941? The dating was on similar strata from the cave. Obviously not on the fossils themselves.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:35:39 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:37:17 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:45:47 AM PDT
by
woollyone
(I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
To: BGHater
It is a fake...and that has been known for years!
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:52:58 AM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: BGHater
But, but, but... I thought the Earth was only 6 thousand years old, and Dinosaurs and Man co-existed?
/sarc
To: Pharmboy
“Out of Africa” is an invention of the black lunatic Left in the 1970s and 1980s, which seeks to delegitimize ANY influence from Europe or Asia (which ever increasing evidence shows really happened to populate the Americas). After my alma mater formally changed the Anthropology Department to the Department of Feminist Anthropology, fired all the male professors, and replaced them with nasty, hairy, badly dressed, radical fems, I stopped giving to the alumni fund.
To: pabianice; blam
But have the multiregionalists ever explained the DNA in a way to give the lie to the OOA nuts? Please point me to it if it exists...
Thanks...
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posted on
03/12/2009 11:09:30 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must...)
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