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Libyan find suggests earlier ancestors came from Asia
AFP ^ | October 27, 2010 | Unknown

Posted on 10/27/2010 1:15:20 PM PDT by decimon

PARIS (AFP) – Ancient fossilized teeth of small anthropoid monkeys discovered in Libya suggest our earliest ancestors may have migrated from Asia to Africa, research published Wednesday showed.

The origin of anthropoids -- primates including monkeys, apes and humans -- has long been a source of hot debate among palaeontologists.

Experts have long argued anthropoids first appeared in Africa -- but recent studies suggest an earlier Asian origin, dating 55 million years ago.

Now new fossils, dating 38 to 39 million years ago and discovered in Dur At-Talah in central Libya, further complicate the debate.

They reveal the existence of three types of African anthropoids -- the oldest discovered on the continent to date, according to the study published in the British journal Nature.

Based on previous discoveries in Egypt and Algeria, "we are aware until now of only one form of anthropoid primate, dating back 37 million years ago for the oldest," said one of the study's authors, Jean-Jacques Jaeger, of Poitiers University in France.

"Here we have gone further, to 39 or 38 million years, and we have three (types) ... and among the three, there is an Asiatic form," he told AFP.

"This therefore signals the direction of migration from Asia toward Africa," Jaeger added.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: eocene; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; paleocene; paleontology; petm; primatology
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1 posted on 10/27/2010 1:15:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Kadaffi’s your daddy ping.


2 posted on 10/27/2010 1:16:08 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

So all life doesn’t come from Mother Africa? A whole lot of college professors are going to have to spin a new historical yarn.


3 posted on 10/27/2010 1:18:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: decimon

39 million years ago Asia was in Africa.


4 posted on 10/27/2010 1:22:44 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (If Obama was the answer---that must have been one stupid question!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Wife is taking an Anthropology course right now. I just read this to her and her comment was “ROTT ROOW”!!


5 posted on 10/27/2010 1:22:58 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: decimon

Somewhere, somewhen, something was our first ancestor. Over the course of some indefinite time, something happened, and humans appeared. Scientific precision. You’d be a fool to question it.


6 posted on 10/27/2010 1:28:38 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: Gadsden1st
Wife is taking an Anthropology course right now. I just read this to her and her comment was “ROTT ROOW”!!

Sure that wasn't your parrot?

7 posted on 10/27/2010 1:30:07 PM PDT by decimon
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To: November 2010

Yep.

But there exist corrupt “educators” who indoctrinate a segment of society to believe that Africa was a wonderful paradise until a scientist “invented” white people who are “white devils” who let loose all of the evils on the world.

And yes, this IS a ideology that has poisoned minds for generations even if they want to insist it is just a parable.


8 posted on 10/27/2010 1:35:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: decimon

Naw, parrot fell off the perch and has been laying on the bottom of the cage for days now, need to bring him back to the pet shop.


9 posted on 10/27/2010 1:36:00 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"39 million years ago Asia was in Africa."

LOL. 120 million years ago, Africa was part of South America.

10 posted on 10/27/2010 1:45:04 PM PDT by blam
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To: a fool in paradise

The Africa, single point of origin has never been fully accepted although the PC anthropologists tend to pretty much silence any other point of view.


11 posted on 10/27/2010 1:47:37 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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12 posted on 10/27/2010 1:51:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: Gadsden1st

Well, that explains the universal appeal of Chinese food.


13 posted on 10/27/2010 1:54:01 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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14 posted on 10/27/2010 4:07:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Thanks decimon.

One of my favorites to reprise:
The Scars of Evolution:
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins

by Elaine Morgan
"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"
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15 posted on 10/27/2010 4:09:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sounds like the Chinese investment in anthropology grants is paying off.


16 posted on 10/27/2010 4:45:06 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: decimon; SunkenCiv
This find gave it away:


17 posted on 10/27/2010 5:04:29 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: decimon
Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says
18 posted on 10/27/2010 5:05:12 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

I remember that.

Doesn’t bother me one way or the other. As Popeye said, I yam what I yam.


19 posted on 10/27/2010 5:20:59 PM PDT by decimon
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To: colorado tanker

I wonder what made it swing American?


20 posted on 10/27/2010 5:26:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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