Note: this topic was posted 6/7/2013. Thanks Pharmboy.
Posted on 06/07/2013 6:06:16 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Hubei, China - Chinese scientists have discovered a fossil that they claim is the earliest known ancestor of humans.
The find has challenged the long-held belief that apes began their evolution in Africa.
The Archicebus Achilles was discovered in 2002 on a lake bed in China's Hubei province, but took more than 10 years of analysis for scientists to declare it as the world's oldest known primate fossil.
The scientists contend that the 55-million-year-old fossil, which looks a bit like a mouse with monkey-like feet, is the world's oldest known ape-like creature.
"Now after we discovered this fossil, we can say without any doubt, that the evolutionary history of mankind started 10 million years earlier than we originally thought."
The discovery is bound to stir intense debate as to how the creature fits into our understanding of evolution and in particular how it is linked to modern-day humans.
Ha! Love your tag line, GG2...
More recently DNA has demonstrated that White Folks have the highest percentage of Neanderthal DNA, followed by East Asians, and finally Africans with little or no Neanderthal DNA.
It's good to be a Neanderthal!
I have 2.7% Neander per 23andme.com; they also say that Asians have the highest—up to 4 %. They place me in the Northern Euro group where the average is 2.6%. Again, according to 23andme.
Remember, it's good to be the King; it's good to be Neanderthal.
it was just a test of the Emergency Monitoring and Auditing System...
...they must go crazy during football season in New England with all the swearing at the Patriots—
;)
Pingaling
That is my contention too. Science is evolving and it is also subject to the same human biases and overstatements as any other field especially when political and cultural implications are involved.
I am in agreement with you. The part I disagree with is the field that is supposed to be built on asking questions and finding truth too often degenerates into a dogma that can not be questioned without facing great ridicule and taking both professional and personal risk.
The Science I fell in love with as a child was not the science we have today or maybe it was just I was too naïve to see the problems.
Note: this topic was posted 6/7/2013. Thanks Pharmboy.
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