[AdmSmith]

A new year - new arguments?

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[Terriergal]

But the fossil raises the tantalizing possibility that remote human ancestors may have originated in Asia

Why is that so tantalizing?

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
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[greenwolf]

Xijun Ni and colleagues describe the fossil as Teilhardina asiatica, a new species of a genus first recognized from Belgium, in the Jan. 1, 2004, issue of Nature. At 28 grams, T. asiatica is smaller than any modern primate, and its size and sharp tooth cusps indicate that it was an insect-eater.

That sounds for all the world like a MONKEY, just like every "hominid" skeleton they've come up with so far except for the neanderthal, which was basically just an ice-age democrat.

[baclava]

This is all pure fantasy...when does the alien genetic manipulation of our gene pool come into the picture?

[AdmSmith]

Here are some additional information


Figure 1 Primate evolution in outline. This tree incorporates the results of the analysis by Ni et al.1 (see Fig. 3 on page 67; lemuroids are formally known as Adapiformes, and tarsioids as Omomyiformes). Along with Teilhardina belgica, the new species T. asiatica branches away first on the haplorhine side of the tree (T1). By contrast, T. americana (T2) is nested within the other Eocene tarsioids, calling into doubt its place in the genus Teilhardina. (Primate icons drawn by Lucrezia Beerli-Bieler.)

source: http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6969/full/427022a_fs.html

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP - "Don't think so"

[msdrby]

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