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'Ardi,' Oldest Human Ancestor, Unveiled
Discovery Channel ^
| October 1, 2009
| Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Posted on 10/01/2009 8:12:17 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:12:18 AM PDT
by
sodpoodle
To: sodpoodle
potential human ancestor No need to modify the title. We all know it's horsecrap.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:13:31 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
("Isn't the Golden Mean the secret to something," I parried? "Yes," Blue replied. "Mediocrity.")
To: the invisib1e hand
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Luddite.Could you elaborate, that I might be made aware of any relevance to me?
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:16:24 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
("Isn't the Golden Mean the secret to something," I parried? "Yes," Blue replied. "Mediocrity.")
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:19:03 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: the invisib1e hand
“If you have faith, you will be accused of being ignorant of science.”
Contemporary Secularists probably believe they’re pretty clever to have this point of view.
However, this was a quote from a book written 330 years ago. So much for “contemporary wisdom”.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:19:14 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: sodpoodle
That thing doesn’t come from my family tree. It does remind me of someone.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:22:10 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
To: sodpoodle
17-year investigation
"Investigated" for 17 years, eh?
*wink wink nudge nudge*
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:22:21 AM PDT
by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Giving Luddites a bad rep with that one..
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:25:48 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: sodpoodle
Let us wait a few years to let the opposition have a look at the data and materials.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:26:12 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: sodpoodle
To: sodpoodle
Great grandrama (x3,000,000 or so generations) or ACORN worker, I can't tell.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:26:38 AM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
To: sodpoodle
I love how they always put puppy dog eyes and a smile on these fraudulent finds.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:33:10 AM PDT
by
mark3681
To: sodpoodle
“Ardi could climb trees, using lengthy fingers and big toes for grasping, but she could also walk on the ground on two feet.”
Sounds kinda like me! At age 10.
To: mark3681
How is this fraudulent? Whether or not you think this is a human ancestor doesn’t change the fact that the bones are there and this creature did exist.
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:36:38 AM PDT
by
Raymann
To: sodpoodle
To: sodpoodle
"Well 'Ardi, 'ar, 'ar!"
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:43:04 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: FormerACLUmember
Is that you Michelle Obama?
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
10/01/2009 8:59:45 AM PDT
by
SaveTheChief
(Obama lied, America died.)
To: sodpoodle
“Such provisioning by males would have favored those males who could best walk on two feet, according to the researchers, allowing them free hands for carrying food. Provisioned females could have “intensified their parenting” and carried their infants, which is easier to do in woodland environments when the forelimbs are free.”
But this could just as easily and accurately be said:
Such provisioning by males would have favored those males
who could best run on four legs, according to the
researchers, allowing them to get to food supplies first.
Provisioned females could have “intensified their
feeding” producing stronger infants, which makes it easier to hang on to their mothers since her forelimbs need to be free to walk in a woodland environment.
The first part is from the article, the second I wrote using the first. A “just so” narrative is just that and tells us nothing.
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posted on
10/01/2009 9:01:23 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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