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1 posted on 09/19/2007 3:45:19 PM PDT by Dysart

I would dispute that assumption................

2 posted on 09/19/2007 3:49:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)

3 posted on 09/19/2007 3:50:13 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)

“1.77 million years ago”

How in the heck do they know this? I mean, how long do things really last? Why not say 1 freakin’ million years? Why not 10 thousand years? I just can’t wrap my brain around this.

4 posted on 09/19/2007 3:50:37 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)

was more gradual, finishes the last sentence. Sorry about chopping it off.

5 posted on 09/19/2007 3:53:59 PM PDT by Dysart (Lip-readers are more fun than naked Jell-O fights.)

The arms were more like australopithecines than people, and the primitive skulls encased relatively small brains. Their simple stone tools also are less advanced than one might have expected, the researchers said.

Ancient Democrats, no doubt.

6 posted on 09/19/2007 3:54:03 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)

“Their heads are primitive. Their legs are very human-like.”

Where have I heard this song before? Piltdown, maybe?

15 posted on 09/19/2007 5:22:02 PM PDT by zebra 2

To: Dysart; blam; SunkenCiv

The Oldest Hominid Site Found in Eurasia to Date

Paleontological, archaeological, geochronological, and paleomagnetic data from Dmanisi all indicate an earliest Pleistocene age of about 1.8 MA

17 posted on 09/19/2007 5:23:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)

"Their heads are primitive. Their legs are very human-like."

Could they have looked something like this?

27 posted on 09/19/2007 6:20:58 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)

Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human Origins
NY Times | August 6, 2002 | By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 08/11/2002 6:59:04 PM EDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/731458/posts

Stranger In A New Land (Archaeology)
Scientific American | 11-13-2003 | Kate Wong
Posted on 11/01/2003 11:45:22 AM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1012772/posts

Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
National Geographic News | December 27, 2005 | Nicholas Bakalar
Posted on 12/28/2005 7:01:34 PM EST by SuzyQue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548375/posts

Evolutionary Back Story: Thoroughly Modern Spine Supported Human Ancestor
Science News | 5-7-2006 | Bruce Bower
Posted on 05/07/2006 11:48:57 AM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628185/posts

Rewriting Human History
Rolex Awards | 8-25-2005
Posted on 08/26/2006 8:38:14 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690599/posts

Did prehistoric man enter Europe through the Balkans?
SAWF.org | 8-22-07
Posted on 08/23/2007 7:41:47 AM EDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1885298/posts

35 posted on 09/19/2007 10:04:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 12, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

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