Fossils Link Apes, First Humans?
A year from now, another report will come out showing this is just a deformed homosapien, but won’t get any news coverage. That’s usually how these things work.
I believe in evolution. The chimps are one step away from becoming liberals. We can turn them around.
dubbed Australopithecusobama sediba
Again?
Wait a few years and they will revamp the chain yet again.
I am so old that in my school books neanderthal man was in the depicted chain.
Why are they asking me?
No it did not, it looked like a giant chimp with a saggital crest.
More importantly, Physical Anthropologists care more about the hips and feet than the face.
How do they know it wasn’t another endangered species that went extinct?
Bob, Bob is that you?
This dog and pony show is getting wearisome.
Australopithecus sediba in the flesh......err, I mean bone
One thing that is a possibility is that in the past, there were creatures that were apes but with different abilities or feature than current apes. Why every discovery (if it is one) has to be a “link” I have no idea.
Other than clutching at straws, of course!
I am not a believer in these “scientists” or global warming. I think this one is a money grab.
Here we go again, ping.....
They never will find that missing link because none exists.
Man didn’t evolve from apes or apelike creatures or whatever it is they are calling it these days.
1. Created here from scratch recently
2. Brought here from elsewhere in the cosmos
3. Genetically re-engineered from one of the hominids.
Here's the basic problem: In order to be descended from something via any sort of process resembling evolution, at some point, you have to be able to interbreed with the something.
Now, it was always a big mystery as to why there was never any evidence of crossbreeding between modern humans and neanderthals despite evidence of the two groups living in close proximity for long periods of time; one fairly good description of the problem was published in Discover Magazine around 96.
And then, in the late 90s, they resolved the mystery by analyzing neanderthal DNA; the result they turned up was that neanderthal dna was about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and pretty much everybody involved in these studies views that as altogether eliminating the neanderthal as a plausible human ancestor. Even standard sources like PLOS Biology agree with this assessment.
Again as I noted, all other hominids were further removed from us THAN the neanderthal. In other words, if you wanted to go on thinking that we are descended from hominids, you would have to produce some new hominid closer to us both in time and morphology THAN the neanderthal and the works and remains of such a creature would be all over the map and exceedingly easy to find, had he ever existed. There is, of course, zero evidence of it.
The basic bottom line is that there is nothing on this planet which we could plausibly be descended from via any process resembling evolution.
What could possibly go awry with this thread?