Why is it that when remains such a "little foot" are found, they have to "fit" into some kind of box in order to be considered part of the human evolutionary trail?
The article states that it cannot be considered a direct ancestor of humankind but more of a distant cousin. To my mind, distant, near or right the blazes on top of ya, if it is determined to be hominid, then if belongs on the trail.
But now the apeman has been dated precisely to 2.2 million years old by scientists at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool, making it about 400,000 years too young to be a part of man's family tree
marduk wrote:quite a lot
at that stage in history there was more than one homo species on earth
we are only descended from one of them Neanderspeculators aside
okay, more than one species I can handle, but, why is it that we are said to descend from only one? That is the part I cannot get my mind to accept.
I know this is an old argument, but it still doesn't make sense.
Since when did sense win against dogma? On the odd occasion that it does there is nothing quite so amusing as watching politicions and experts performing 'U' turns when their pet theory bites the dust.
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
"Give us the timber or we'll go all stupid and lawless on your butts". --Redcloud, MTF
"...when, from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. That was until Dan Quayle was elected the vice president and things took a turn. She said 'If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.' I'll repeat that. I'll repeat that because that's the kind of sentence that when your brain hears it, it comes to a screeching halt. And the left-hand side of the brain looks at the right-hand side of the brain and says, 'It's dark in here, and we may die!' She said, if it weren't for my horse -- [as in] giddyup giddyup, let's go -- I wouldn't have spent that year in college, a degree-granting institution. Don't, DON'T think about that for more than three minutes or blood will shoot out of your nose."
I had already figured out that Lewis Black must have lived out west....
and no blood shot out of my nose.....it seemed perfectly logical, not
ironic at all!
John Stewart has just coined a new word for the Iraq situation.
A catastrophuck.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
