[vannrox]

Yet another revision of history.

[gusopol3]

"we have long known that the Garden of Eden was in East Africa."

[Scully]

Ping!

[gcruse]

Yet another revision of history.

You expecting a final edition?
The end of history was one thing,
the end of prehistory...never.

[Sam Cree]

bump

[CobaltBlue]

My God created an evolving universe.

How fascinating to find more of the pieces of the puzzle.

[aruanan]

"A hominid of this age," Dr. Wood wrote in Nature, "should certainly not have the face of a hominid less than one-third of its geological age."

Not surprising if, as a prominent French researcher is correct, the skull is that of an ancient female gorilla which has a more human and less ape-like facial features. If anything, the reverberations caused by individual fossils should underscore the poverty of data in this field .

[Busywhiskers]

So much for the nice neat theories supporting the "From goo to you by way of the zoo" school of thought.

[Aric2000]

There is nothing surprising in this, it is expected, the evolutionary tree, just by the way it came about will look like a bush or a tree, then a straight up ladder, some breakoffs will not work and therefore die off, dead end, while others will work and will continue to evolve, and some of those won't work and that branch will die, another dead end.

To say that this rolls evolution on its head is ridiculous, it just shows that it is indeed giving the right answers, and continues to grow. The basic theory is VERY sound, and it will just get more and more pieces added to it.

Again, to say that this hurts the theory of evolution at all, is going way beyond any kind of evidence.

Keep trying though, I love to see you Creo's freaking out and latching onto whatever you can find.

[Tribune7]

This really exposes how little we know of human evolution

Bingo

[Tribune7]

ping

[Chemnitz]

Careful reading of Genesis 1-2 challenges current theories of human origin!

[Verginius Rufus]

Yet another revision of history.

Also a revision of geography: someone should tell The New York Times that the Republic of Georgia is in Asia, not Europe.

[gore3000]

the discovery team estimated the cranial capacity of the new skull to be about 600 cubic centimeters, compared with about 780 and 650 c.c.'s for the other Dmanisis specimens. That is "near the mean" for H. habilis, they noted. Modern human braincases are about 1,400 cubic centimeters.

Paleontologists still adhere to the totally discredited notion that the size of the head matters in any way to intelligence. Elephants have not made spaceships, and neither have hippos. Children are smarter than older full grown humans, it is totally amazing how much they learn in such a short time. For example, children learn language in a year while it takes fully grown people years to do the same. You also cannot tell a person's intelligence by looking at them which should be the case if the size of the brain was the measure of intelligence. In addition to all the above, real science (not the pseudo-sciences of evolution and paleontology) learned long ago that it is not brain size, but the folds of the brain that matter most about intelligence. In addition to which we have recently found that even without any genetic differences, humans are much smarter than chimps because of greater gene expression in their brains. So this brain size nonsense means absolutely nothing regarding the capabilities or the nature of the organism. Which is not to be wondered at since we can tell very little from just a few bones.

[Eaker]

The 1.75-million-year-old Georgian skull could answer questions about the first human ancestors to leave Africa, and why they ventured forth.

They could already see the writing on the wall??

Stay safe; stay armed.

[fire_eye]

Some presumably were dead-end side branches.

You mean, like, Liberals?

[aristeides]

Why are these scientists so committed to the idea that all of Homo originated in Africa? Didn't Carleton Coone advance the theory years ago that the races developed separately in different parts of the world, and don't discoveries like these ones tend to support a theory of that kind?

[Dimensio]

This can't be right. If it challenged the Most Holy Theory of Evolution, then evolutionists everywhere would be scrambling to cover it up, pretending that it was never found. That must be the case because Creationists (praise be unto them) say that evolutionists do this and they wouldn't lie, would they?

[Woodkirk]

There is an old saying that paleontologists should keep in mind:
Be careful when you're dating those monkeys.

[dubyagee]

Struck by the skull's unusual mix of apelike and evolved hominid features, the discoverers assigned it to an entirely new genus and species — Sahelanthropus tchadensis...promised "to illuminate the earliest chapter in human evolutionary history."

These people never cease to amaze me. It must truly be a God-given gift to be able to decipher all that from a cranium, two jaw fragments and two teeth. (Do I even need to add a sarcasm tag?)

[PsyOp]

Scientists, realizing that this new member of the HOMO genus deserved a new name were hard pressed to come with one that would fit a possible extinct branch. Their first thought was to call it Barnicus Homo Frankus because of the narrow set eye sockets and and weak jaw....