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First chimp fossil unearthed
Nature Magazine ^
| 31 August 2005
| Michael Hopkin
Posted on 08/31/2005 11:35:50 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:36:39 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: PatrickHenry
Another date for Clinton.....
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:37:10 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(He who laughs last thinks slowest.)
To: coconutt2000
"Palaeontologists digging in the dusty wastelands of East Africa have discovered the first known chimpanzee fossil. The modest haul of just three teeth is the first hard evidence of the evolutionary path that led to today's chimpanzees."
Can't be right, they became humans not todays chimps.
Don't they understand evolution.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:37:30 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: PatrickHenry
Gee, what are the odds of finding the bones of the very first chimp?
To: PatrickHenry
What kind of spin do you think this story would get on DU?
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
it was probably sarcasm)
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:39:16 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: PatrickHenry
LOL this is a hoot
" The modest haul of just three teeth is the first hard evidence of the evolutionary path that led to today's chimpanzees. "
To: PatrickHenry
My prediction: You will see a thread started on DU about this with the first comment being, "They already found a fossil of Bush?"
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:40:06 AM PDT
by
Eagle of Liberty
(Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Einstein)
To: PatrickHenry
it seems that chimpanzees may not have been physically separated from humans as was once thought.
The chimps were actually the masters of humans back then.
Oh wait, that was the future not the past. Yikes!
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:40:11 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: PatrickHenry
Wow.
Was the big #1 tattooed on his arm?
Or was the tag sown to his fur?
Idiot so-called "scientists"!
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:41:33 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: PatrickHenry
Thanks for the link to "Comparison of Human, Chimpanzee Genomes Reveals Striking Similarities." Very informative article.
To: PatrickHenry
So, chimps descended from man?
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:42:34 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Cloudy, 51 degrees, scattered showers, wind <5 knots in Fairbanks)
To: PatrickHenry
Three teeth? They're going ape over three teeth?
Yeah, that'll clear everything up about chimp 'evolution'.
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08/31/2005 11:42:56 AM PDT
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newzjunkey
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:43:27 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
To: PatrickHenry
Well that's a barely interesting link. 96%, given the raw numbers of genes, is not as great a commonality as the number is intended to imply to the unwashed masses. While accurate, it's misleading.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:45:35 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Cindy Sheehan: "All You Are Saying Is Give APPEASEMENT A Chance!")
To: b4its2late
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:46:20 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: RightWhale
Hmm... Well, that would be one way to explain the looting in Katrina's wake.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:46:51 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Cindy Sheehan: "All You Are Saying Is Give APPEASEMENT A Chance!")
To: PatrickHenry
This means we need a better explanation of why and how chimps and humans went their separate evolutionary ways, McBrearty says. The discovery that chimps were living in semi-arid conditions as well as in the jungle seems to blow apart the simplistic idea that it was the shift to savannah that led to humans walking upright.Ummm, no, of its own accord, it doesn't. The chimp fossils are from 500,000 years ago. The human & chimp lineages split some 6 million years ago. The chimps had several million years to enter the area where humans (and their ancestors) may very well have been alone beforehand. That would certainly explain why no older chimp fossils have been found as well.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:50:03 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
To: AntiGuv
PS. And if these researchers did indeed say that this "seems to blow apart the simplistic idea" blah, blah, blah then they are deeply incompetent, even despite their intriguing discovery.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:51:26 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
To: RightWhale
So, chimps descended from man? Shhh! Not so loud. Chimps find the thought revolting.
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posted on
08/31/2005 11:54:44 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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