Posted on 09/18/2007 4:05:30 AM PDT by shrinkermd
In the study of human origins, paleoanthropology stares in frustration back to a dark age from three million to less than two million years ago. The missing mass in this case is the unfound fossils to document just when and under what circumstances our own genus Homo emerged.
The origin of Homo is one of the most intriguing and intractable mysteries in human evolution. New findings only remind scientists that answers to so many of their questions about early Homo probably lie buried in the million-year dark age.
It is known that primitive hominids — human ancestors and their close kin — walked upright across the plains of Africa at this time. They were presumably larger members of the genus Australopithecus, the best known of which was the Lucy species, Australopithecus afarensis, that had thrived up to three million years ago.
...At about 2.6 million years ago, some clever hominids were knapping stone tools. Then, or some time later, scientists suspect, the first Homo appeared, but there is no confirmed evidence of this step.
Subsequent finds, from a time beginning after 1.9 million years ago, revealed an early Homo identified as Homo habilis, the “handy man,” a species with a somewhat larger brain and a more humanlike face, teeth and stature than the apelike australopithecines.
Habilis was generally accorded an important place as the first of the genus, preceding the more advanced Homo erectus and, ultimately, modern humans — Homo sapiens. But certainty has been elusive. A report last month in the journal Nature renewed debate over the habilis’s place in human evolution.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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A quicker and easier way would be to just ask Helen.
Fossils served a purpose before DNA and genetics were perfected. Now they are just moot.
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Maybe, if, possibly these guys would/could clearly look at the fossil evidence they would conclude they do not have the evidence and never will to make their already foregone conclusion a FACT. Their fable of evolution is not borne out by the fossil evidence.
I keep waiting to hear/read of a grand announcement, a primordial hot steaming pond is discovered with all manner of creatures creeping onto dry land. Out of Africa I supposed.
So were some clever Cherokee/Shawnee/etc. just 200 years ago.
God will answer all questions in his own time...........
Some are still doing it today........and selling them on eBay.............
His name was Adam. You can read about him in the Bible.
The author's logo.
Yes. I was watching them do it last month.
LOL.
Yup, everyone of us who believes in evolution is a communist, atheist, monkey worshipping monkey boy. There are a few other epithets I usually like to include, among them, gay agenda following nanny staters who encourage our wives to breastfeed in public (whip those things out, babe).
I have the feeling I missed something, though.
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You left out Nazi.
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Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.paleoanthropology stares in frustration back to a dark age from three million to less than two million years agoTime to check on the continental shelf, and/or somewhere besides Africa. Thanks Fractal Trader. |
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