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To: WildTurkey
So exactly how many generations do I have to go back before I have a monkey in my family tree? Ten thousand? A million? There is no evidence of human beings existing that far back.

Uh, actually, there is.

No, there really isn't.

The Miocene Epoch: 5.3 - 23.8 Million years ago (20 million years is roughly 1 million human generations)

The Miocene was a time of warmer global climates than those in the preceeding Oligocene, or the following Pliocene. It is particularly notable in that two major ecosystems first appeared at this time: kelp forests and grasslands. The expansion of grasslands is correlated to a drying of continental interiors as the global climate first warmed and then cooled. The largest animal life was characterized by Chalicotherium, a Miocene mammal from Kazakhstan. Chalicotherium was an unusual "odd-toed" hoofed mammal, or perissodactyl.

Please post your link to a 20-million-year-old hominid skeleton.

243 posted on 12/22/2004 7:09:09 PM PST by highimpact (The only way to defeat terrorism is to annihilate the terrorists)
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To: highimpact
Please post your link to a 20-million-year-old hominid skeleton.

That's the point. If you could trace your ancestors back far enough, you'd find that they didn't look very human. Nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens in the best of families.

244 posted on 12/22/2004 7:20:04 PM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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