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To: PatrickHenry
2 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.....
3 posted on
08/31/2005 11:37:10 AM PDT by
b4its2late
(He who laughs last thinks slowest.)
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)
6 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?"
8 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!
9 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"!
10 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?
12 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'.
13 posted on
08/31/2005 11:42:56 AM PDT by
newzjunkey
(Cindy Sheehan: "All You Are Saying Is Give APPEASEMENT A Chance!")
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.
15 posted on
08/31/2005 11:45:35 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.
18 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: PatrickHenry
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
21 posted on
08/31/2005 11:55:36 AM PDT by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
To: PatrickHenry
Cheeta the Chimp says "Ooga, Ooga!"
To: PatrickHenry
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?
To: PatrickHenry
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!
To: PatrickHenry
First chimp fossil, of course, not first chimp fossil, which would be the more important find.
31 posted on
08/31/2005 12:44:04 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
32 posted on
08/31/2005 12:46:21 PM PDT by
evets
(God bless president Bush!)
To: PatrickHenry
58 posted on
08/31/2005 5:59:53 PM PDT by
LiteKeeper
(The radical secularization of America is happening)
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