Fossil find pushes human-ape split back millions of years

Breitbart ^ | 8/24/07 | Mikey_1962

[UndauntedR]

even the number of chromosomes are different

Humans have one less chromosome than apes. Why? We know the exact locus of the telomere to telomere fusion of ape-chromosomes 2A and 2B into human chromosome 2.

As you might expect, this is certainly not evidence against evolution.

[UndauntedR]

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Human_Ape_chromosomes.htm

[Blue State Insurgent]

Our ancestors taking to the sea seems to be a plausible explanation for the dearth of fossil remains dating between 11-7 million years ago.

[RobbyS]

Well, a bad side of Science is the tendency to leap to conclusions. Darwin et al. leapt to conclusions that cannot now be supported, just like the rest of us do. The bad thing was that Darwinists shouted down all opposition as obscurantism, even variant theories of evolution. Religious zealots get bad press in scientific circles, but science has its zealots as well.

[Coyoteman]

Our ancestors taking to the sea seems to be a plausible explanation for the dearth of fossil remains dating between 11-7 million years ago.

When I studied evolution in grad school the standard explanation for the lack of late Miocene fossils was because so many of the apes were living in the forests. Forests are notoriously poor at preserving fossils.

Later, when groups left the forests for grasslands and lake shores, etc., the number of fossils increased.

The aquatic ape theory I think deals more with this latter time frame.

[Oztrich Boy]

Amazing how these estimates keep getting pushed further and further back in time.

Not really, it used to be 25 million. More evidence dropped it to 7 million, no revised to 10.

That's the thing about science. More evidence gives you more confindent in the refined estimate.

Religion> Well I think it might be 10,000 years not 6000. Why? I dunno..

[Dog Gone]

Maybe they were never joined...and this is further proof.

Amazing how these estimates keep getting pushed further and further back in time.

How far back in time is too far? 4000 BC?

[ECM]

I think the other poster was stating that he doesn’t think the evidence points to that, and that this evidence could be used to bolster that argument.