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To: DouglasKC

You could be right on!
Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html

In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today’s lemurs in Madagascar.

Based on previously limited fossil evidence, one big debate had been whether the tarsidae or adapidae group gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans. The latest discovery bolsters the less common position that our ancient ape-like ancestor was an adapid, the believed precursor of lemurs.


47 posted on 05/18/2009 12:46:12 PM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: TaraP
In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

And we've just obtained the first picture:


49 posted on 05/18/2009 12:47:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: TaraP
The latest discovery bolsters the less common position that our ancient ape-like ancestor was an adapid, the believed precursor of lemurs

Being related to lemurs would explain a lot.

My in-laws, for instance.

56 posted on 05/18/2009 12:51:12 PM PDT by wbill
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To: TaraP
The latest discovery bolsters the less common position that our ancient ape-like ancestor was an adapid, the believed precursor of lemurs.

Lemurs!
Lemurs?

I'll have to change my tag line

76 posted on 05/18/2009 1:03:36 PM PDT by woollyone (I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
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To: TaraP

Ahhhhh the old “missing link”, eh? They’ll be searching for that FOREVER!


102 posted on 05/18/2009 1:41:11 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: TaraP; DouglasKC

TaraP, you quoted that other article about the fossil — In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

Well, I can tell you what would be an “earthshaking discovery” and also elicit screams of *horror* at the same time.

It would be the discovery that the earth was made about 10,000 years ago and that God made mankind and all living creatures in it.

That would elicit “screams of horror” from many and there would be protests in the streets of all our major cities...


115 posted on 05/18/2009 2:26:15 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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