Posted on 09/09/2011 9:11:28 PM PDT by Perdogg
Their deaths two million years ago have breathed new life into our understanding of the way human beings evolved. Two primitive ape-like creatures, believed to be a mother and her young son, plunged through the roof of a cave and suffered a slow death from starvation.
Now scientists believe their fossilised skeletons show they could be our direct ancestors, the long-sought ‘missing link’ between apes and humans.
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A ten-to-thirteen year old child — young enough that the only conclusion the scientists can draw is that the older female he accompanied was his mother — is our “direct ancestor”?
I always ask those that believe in evolution, how exactly did we evolve.
I never get an answer.
What I love about evolutionism is that a organism is threatened and needs to make a change to survive but it only takes a million years to affect said change. I would think said organism would be dead by then.
Please explain those “links” between paramecia and these newly found “ancestors”. Thank you in advance. Bob
I always say... who invented everything including theories?
Where did I say I support evolution?
I am buttressing your remark, not criticizing it! LOL Bob
“A ten-to-thirteen year old child — young enough that the only conclusion the scientists can draw is that the older female he accompanied was his mother”
She could have been his middle school teacher.
handwaving and just-so stories...not much to base ‘science’ on.....of course...im one of the great unwashed who simply cant fathom ‘true science’, and in my limited intellectual capacity, simply cant grasp the wisdom of my ‘betters’ who worship, in one way or the other, at the altar of darwin...
the level of ignorance in some of these comments is proof positive that evolution is not only a very slow process, it seems to be optional as well ;-)
How long ago did they start giving out Darwin Awards, anyway?
Cheers!
I saw a big foot once. 1951, back in Sequoia National Park. Had a foot on it, thir-ty seven inches heal to toe. It made a sound I would not want to hear twice in my life.
The are no fossilized progresion markers, nor is there a single fossilized apogee that demonstrably points to evolution.
Pure conjecture...
LOL
Mrs. Piltdown, no doubt.
Simple: She could have previously had other offspring.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The cemeteries of the world are filled with mothers lying next to their young children - e.g. mothers who died giving birth - and yet many of those mothers founded entire tribes.
A little logical reasoning before posting wouldn't hurt.
And besides, the scientists aren't claiming that this particular individual is literally our forebear; rather, it is the journalists who use that kind of sloppy language. If a paleo-anthropologist were to say such a thing, he undoubtedly would mean that the particular individual belonged to the same type as our direct ancestors.
Regards,
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