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Little Hominid May Have Been Failed Experiment
Science - Reuters ^ | 2004-07-01 | Maggie Fox

Posted on 07/01/2004 12:22:40 PM PDT by Junior

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1 posted on 07/01/2004 12:22:41 PM PDT by Junior
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To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer; Ichneumon

"Failed Experiment" ping.


2 posted on 07/01/2004 12:23:14 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Junior

dwarf. We have them today too.


3 posted on 07/01/2004 12:24:46 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Junior

What is "tiny"? How big was this "clearly adult" hominid?


4 posted on 07/01/2004 12:25:18 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Junior

I hate it when that phrase is used.


5 posted on 07/01/2004 12:25:56 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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To: Junior
Clearly an example of Mini Me Sapien.
6 posted on 07/01/2004 12:26:40 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Junior

What do you get when you cross a pygmy with a hooker?

A little f**ker about 3 feet tall.


7 posted on 07/01/2004 12:27:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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To: Junior

The author forgot to say what is meant by "tiny." That's most of the story here.


8 posted on 07/01/2004 12:27:12 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: js1138

Sorry.


9 posted on 07/01/2004 12:28:11 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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"It's really too hard to say what species it is, if you happen to think there were multiple species around at the time. I certainly used to think so,"

Always after me lucky charms!


10 posted on 07/01/2004 12:28:30 PM PDT by humblegunner (This dog bite me)
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To: plain talk
dwarf. We have them today too.

...where they are gainfully employed by the Keebler Company.


11 posted on 07/01/2004 12:28:45 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Member, Burger-Eating War Monkeys, Rapid Response Digital Brown Shirts, NLC™)
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To: wideawake
What is "tiny"? How big was this "clearly adult" hominid?

OK, you beat me that time.

12 posted on 07/01/2004 12:28:57 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; LogicWings; Doctor Stochastic; ..
Evolution Ping [This list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and maybe other science topics like cosmology. List details are in my freeper homepage. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]
13 posted on 07/01/2004 12:29:21 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: humblegunner
Well, they are Magically Delicious.
14 posted on 07/01/2004 12:29:31 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Member, Burger-Eating War Monkeys, Rapid Response Digital Brown Shirts, NLC™)
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To: Junior

A hobbit?


15 posted on 07/01/2004 12:29:48 PM PDT by ScottFromSpokane (Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
IT WAS A HOBBIT!!!!

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

16 posted on 07/01/2004 12:30:07 PM PDT by mhking
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I read "tiny failed experiment" and see "Tom Daschle"... strange...


17 posted on 07/01/2004 12:30:21 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: js1138

Why not just "dead branch on the Tree of Life"?


18 posted on 07/01/2004 12:30:50 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Junior
filled with grazing zebra and very large grass-eating baboons, along with grazing elephants and huge pigs,"

Yummie. Gimme the scatter-gun, Cleetus.

19 posted on 07/01/2004 12:31:42 PM PDT by Shryke (Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
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"He or she died on a volcanic ridge, perhaps mauled by a lion or other carnivore, Potts said."

A finger seemed to missing on one hand, as well...


20 posted on 07/01/2004 12:32:03 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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