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Scientists find 'oldest human ancestor'
BBC.com ^
| January 30, 2017
| Pallab Ghosh
Posted on 01/30/2017 6:30:05 PM PST by plain talk
They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved". The microscopic sea animal is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and - eventually - to humans.
The research team says that Saccorhytus is the most primitive example of a category of animals called "deuterostomes" which are common ancestors of a broad range of species, including vertebrates (backboned animals).
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adam; evolution
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Good grief
To: plain talk
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They are super cereal, guys.... /algore
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:31:08 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: plain talk
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I think the claim is fictional
To: plain talk
Looks like Chuck Schumer.
To: plain talk
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:32:44 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:33:12 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: plain talk
Really? More of the fantasy of Darwinism!
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:33:21 PM PST
by
Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
To: plain talk
Really? More of the fantasy of Darwinism!
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:33:32 PM PST
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Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
To: plain talk
IT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE DEMOCRATS!!!
*rimshot*!!!!!
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:34:37 PM PST
by
Mr. K
( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
To: plain talk; BroJoeK; editor-surveyor; JimSEA; NorthMountain; caver; piytar
Here’s more “scientists” BS from 540 million years ago. Who in the hell believes this crap? I’m supposed to believe everything some scientist spews?
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:35:19 PM PST
by
caver
(Trump: Home of the Winner)
To: plain talk
It’s the underwater helmet from the making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:36:32 PM PST
by
georgiegirl
(Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
To: plain talk
540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved"
To: plain talk
The elusive missing link?
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:45:43 PM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
Looks like a Democratic Underground poster. They’ve existed for how long? Who knew?
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:47:01 PM PST
by
bobcat62
To: plain talk
Keep it away from Bill Clinton!
To: plain talk
It looks a little bit like “The Creature From The Black Lagoon”.
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posted on
01/30/2017 6:50:54 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: plain talk
What, they haven’t given it a cute human name and published all manner of speculative drawings showing how cute it is, cavorting around cutely? They’re always cute, you know.
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01/30/2017 6:53:25 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
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