The Y-5 pattern in dentition surely seems “human” from Australopithicus on. I think the key was human’s eventual ability to abstract information from their environment, such as Neanderthals placment of flowers in the “graves” of their deceased thus recognizing “something” beyond themselves.
All seems of God to me.
Hey GodGunsGuts - we’re all talking about Obama’s Epic Fail in Copenhagen. Why don’t you come out of your one-subject hole for a while and participate in the bigger world that exists?
My high school english teacher said man did not evolve from the ape, he evolved from the jackass.
For someone who tries to make the connection of believing in evolution and racism, you really are not helping yourself by adding “Obama” keywords to a story about monkeys- Knock it off! Racism, even veiled isn’t tolerated her.
Could this lend credence to the phrase “I’m a monkey’s uncle”?
But Ardi, while past the initial link stage, possesses enough ape and hominid traits to show what those true common ancestors would have looked like, he says.
"It's the first find that we have that is really informative about what that last common ancestor was like."
Could you please be so kind as to explain how these statements from the article disprove the Evolutionary theory?
Though I am not a big supporter of all things about “evolution”, I have seen enough in my lifetime with regard to the personal behavior of some “people” (particularly adults who intentionally starved, maimed, abused or killed infants and/or children, including their own) to have wondered on more than one occasion if devolution, of humans, was possible; because, the behaviors I just alluded to have always seemed, to me, to be “sub-human”.