[PatrickHenry]

There's also another man/chimp article in the news today. Here's a link:
Comparison of Human, Chimpanzee Genomes Reveals Striking Similarities.

Everyone be nice.

[coconutt2000]

Three teeth!!!! Yeehaw!

[b4its2late]

Another date for Clinton.....

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Gee, what are the odds of finding the bones of the very first chimp?

[End Times Sentinel]

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)

[Just mythoughts]

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. "

[Eagle of Liberty]

My prediction: You will see a thread started on DU about this with the first comment being, "They already found a fossil of Bush?"

[dead]

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!

[Publius6961]

Wow.

Was the big #1 tattooed on his arm?
Or was the tag sown to his fur?

Idiot so-called "scientists"!

[eastsider]

Thanks for the link to "Comparison of Human, Chimpanzee Genomes Reveals Striking Similarities." Very informative article.

[RightWhale]

So, chimps descended from man?

[newzjunkey]

Three teeth? They're going ape over three teeth?

Yeah, that'll clear everything up about chimp 'evolution'.

[newzjunkey]

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.

[AntiGuv]

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.

[Vaquero]

Yes in a companion piece I read in Scientific American, it was reported that the stains on the teeth were consistent with those of modern cigarette smoking chimps...and it was extrapolated from the smoking hypothesis, that these paleo-chimps roller skated, and wore diapers.....(snicker).

All in all an interesting article PH....I just couldn't help myself

[lilylangtree]

Cheeta the Chimp says "Ooga, Ooga!"

[Stark_GOP]

By what method were the teeth dated?
Article doesn't say.

I presume, they were dated by the surrounding strata.
Not enough material for lab testing?

[shuckmaster]

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. The teeth are around 500,000 years old,

Bipedalism occured at least 4 million years ago. It's a simplistic idea to suggest that a chimp passing through 3 1/2 million years later somehow blows away the "shift to savannah" hypothesis!

[Doctor Stochastic]

First chimp fossil, of course, not first chimp fossil, which would be the more important find.

[evets]

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP