Posted on 10/01/2009 12:18:15 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Probable life appearance in anterior view of Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi"), ARA-VP 6/500.Photograph by: Handout, Illustrations 2009, J.H. Matternes
An international team of scientists unveiled Thursday the results of 15 years of study of one of the oldest known human ancestors, Ardipithecus ramidus, which they say overturns much of what we know about human evolution.
And surprisingly, it's also rewriting the story of our relation to gorillas and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and their development as well.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, one of the authors involved in the research and the man who discovered the first pieces of the most complete Ardipithecus ramidus specimen, nicknamed Ardi by the researchers, says the findings represent a complete rewrite about what is known about human and ape evolution, and give new insight into how we became bipedal.
"What we are seeing . . . is something we never expected to find in the human lineage," he says, his voice buoyant on the phone from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he is Curator/Head Physical Anthropology.
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Alright who’s the wiseguy that posted a naked picture of my first wife????
Kidding.
:)
ACtually, the article indicates that they found more than a tooth.
I’m sick and tired of “First Lady” posts! Just give the Olympics to Chicago and be done with it!
Who would have guessed that TToE would today be pinin’ for the fjords!
Yes, it amazes me how the creation rationalizers and their Trojan horse ID counterparts view the unfolding of the scientific method as a failure of science.
I thought she was in Copenhagen?
According to Haile-Selassie, even 150 years ago, Charles Darwin understood that although chimps are our closest living relatives, we cannot look to them for clues about our evolution, that there had to be a common ancestor.
Ardi isn’t that ancestor but she is the closest to finding it that we have come so far, the research shows.
Despite this, neither the faith of the Evolutionists or the Christians is shaken...
Don;t go there cause it is the exact thought that went through my mind. WE BAD!!!!!!!!!
thanks, bfl
When my Grandfather-300x started walking PING.
(We are still knuckle draggers)
How con-VEN-ient. /sarc>
Cheers!
I can guaran-damn-tee my family didn’t evolve from that nonsense!
My problem is how can they really know that this specific creature is in human lineage? Evolution has become an unfalsifiable model and is the assumed methodology in almost all of these studies; the model is just modified anytime something challenges it. As long as there is some similarity between any two specimens, they must be related. It's like listening to Paul Krugman who operates on government intervention as the main model; whenever evidence goes against it, the intervention wasn't enough or applied in the right way.
“An international team of scientists unveiled Thursday the results of 15 years of study of one of the oldest known human ancestors, Ardipithecus ramidus, which they say overturns much of what we know about human evolution.
And surprisingly, it’s also rewriting the story of our relation to gorillas and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and their development as well.”
Now they’re saying that gorillas and chimps branched off and developed quite a bit from a common ancestor. If so, how can they say that this newly discovered ape-like creature is our ancestor? Maybe it branched out quite a bit too.
Jeepers! Full frontal female nudity! Definitely nsfw. What’s wrong with you, trying to get me fired?
Yeah, I’ll probably get banned. Too late now.
It never ceases to amaze me, how intelligent human beings keep insisting that we evolved from non-intelligence, through a long history of developement. That presumption is not an intelligent one. Please stop insulting the intelligence of even the average thinking human being. If you are satisfied with being just a little above the apes or along side them fine, not me. I am just a little below the angels, unique in all of creation.
Scientist are sooo imaginative and try to convince us of evolution. Ha! Cracks me up.
Evolution is most definitely falsifiable, as it would not be recognized in its current form by its earliest adherents. It is creation “science” that is not falsifiable by definition, and hence not science at all.
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