[Mr.Clark]

Interesting stuff.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[GaltMeister]

"It's amazing to find such a wonderful skull that's so old," he said.

Preliminary DNA testing has established a close link to both Janet 'Jackboot' Reno and Madeline Al-notso-bright.

[balrog666]

Hello, fadda, hello, mudda...

[Willie Green]

"They've called it a male individual, based on the strong brow ridge, but it's equally possible it's a female," said Professor Stringer.

I've known a few "females" like this.
The uncertainty is understandable.

Scarey.

[Doug Loss]

Go to the library and look for the book, "Extinct Humans," by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz. It makes a very interesting case for the current groupings of hominid species being more a feature of academic politics than of actual scientific research.

[balrog666]

Oops, meant to address the last one to y'all.

[forsnax5]

Bump.

[Darth Reagan]

Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Aaah. Couldn't they come up with a better name than that. Neanderthal, Cro Magnon, Australopithecus, Java Man, even Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens Sapiens just sound better. This guy needs a good nickname at least!

[stanz]

Anybody know when the discovery was made?

[Junior]

Bump.

[ASA Vet]

Want to start a pool on when (by post #) the supernaturalists arrive?

[RobRoy]

"A find like this does make us question the trees people have built up of human evolution," Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum told the BBC.

Time to do some logging on this thread. Of course, many can't see the forest for the trees. 8^>

[DoughtyOne]

It is interesting. It's also humorous. Every find like this is heralded as the greatest find in history. LOL. I have this scene in my minds eye that sees an anomoly, possibly a very inferior specimin that may not be representative at all. But now that it is discovered, the scientific community is all aflutter. What we may be about to base all our belief systems on could be nothing more than that day's missing link, but not ours.

What if ten thousand years from now somebody uncovers Michael Jackson? I can see it now, yep Ludwig those 21st century humanoids were a strange lot.

Remember the large dinosour that had the wrong head on it for decades? There are times when I have to wink when the scientific community pats itself on the back.

[ibme]

The evolutionist place all their hope on one bone, and we call that science!

[wallcrawlr]

...is thought to be approximately seven million years old.

Does anyone really believe that?

[Icthus]

"..The skull is so old that it comes from a time when the creatures which were to become modern humans had not long diverged from the line that would become chimpanzees.."

So....let me get this straight....this skull, is from a "creature" that had not even become a chimpanzee yet, much less a modern human?

[The Duke]

"After seven years of computer simulations to reconstruct the original facial features we can now unveil..."

[EternalVigilance]

"I knew I would one day find it... I've been looking for 25 years," said Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers, France.

I think I'll file this one under 'Pre-conceived Notions'...

[Bryan24]

Sure, it's 7,000,000 years old. It said so right on the tag.

"Lucy's 7,000,000 B.C Skull Sale , Do NOT accept MasterCard or Visa"

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fossil skull in Africa may shift theories of early human evolution -AP Breaking News
MARK EVANS, Associated Press Writer
(07-10) 12:38 PDT (AP) -- In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor -- a remarkably intact skull of an apelike species tha...