Ancient Fossil Child Discovered in Ethiopia [NPR]

National Public Radio ^ | September 20, 2006 | Christopher Joyce

[Ichneumon]

Standing by for the bigger picture to come out in about three to four years, and be listed on page A99.

Yes, the full and detailed evidence supporting evolution is usually not prominently displayed, since the eventual publication of the results of long and careful analysis is not as dramatic as the initial announcement of the find.

[Wormwood]

Standing by for breathless media blitzing on this.

Given this find's importance, I would hope so.

[dubie]

[tomzz]

Your guess is as good as mine on some of it. What it kind of sounds like to me is that FR has a better set of managers and moderators than it did three or four years ago and you and your little clique are having a difficult time adjusting to that. It also sounds like this little schtick of yours (the thing about needing to profess belief in evolutionism in order to be a "respectable" Christian or a respectable conservative) is falling on deaf ears here these days. That might be partly the work of the ID crowd, and it might also amount to the powers that be on FR having figured you guys out, particularly with your having set up a separate website from which to stage forays onto FR.

Other than that, I still get the impression that several of you guys are teenagers from the way you write and your habitual style of "debate", which is why I generally don't respond to your posts.

[tomzz]

Monkey skulls show lots of variation and not all of them have canines which are terribly much different from ours. This spider monkey skull for instance is not that different from the picture of the new fossil:

[aculeus]

Thanks for the ping!

[stumpy]

A friend of mine in high school in the early 60's got hired every year to follow the Ringling Bros. Circus parade in L.A. and shovel up the elephant poo. Made $25.00 an hour during that day which was major bucks back then with gas at 23.9 per gallon.

[JRios1968]

DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[beepbeepitsme]

RE: fossils
Fossil Find Is Missing Link in Human Evolution
http://beepbeepitsme.blogspot.com/2006/09/fossil-find-is-missing-link-in-human.html

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic was posted 9/20/2006. Thanks Wormwood.