origins

stan · Post by **stan** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:57 am

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 012307.php

So man evolved out of Wyoming?

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:40 pm

Ignacius clarkforkensis

Some of these species names are getting a bit strange.

Charlie Hatchett · Post by **Charlie Hatchett** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:43 pm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 012307.php

So man evolved out of Wyoming?

But man couldn't have been smelting iron in N.A. before he was in the "Old World".

Or is that the "New World"...

Ya'll know I don't buy into the whole "Macro-Evolution" bit, but the internal reasoning...

Charlie Hatchett · Post by **Charlie Hatchett** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:46 pm

Some of these species names are getting a bit strange.

I wonder if it's named after the person that discovered the fossils?

Or maybe the location?

stan · Post by **stan** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:00 pm

Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

Isn't the only primate from North America?
(Excpet for Bigfoot?)

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:20 pm

stan wrote:Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

Isn't the only primate from North America?
(Excpet for Bigfoot?)

Well at least they have I.Clarkforkensis' bones.

Bigfoot is still MIA.

Charlie Hatchett · Post by **Charlie Hatchett** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:06 am

Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

...or maybe Clark Fork. Might also be a land mark near the find...

beats me. If his parents named him Ignacius...poor bas***d.

Reminds me of Johnny Cash's song: A Boy Named Sue.

stan · Post by **stan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:21 pm

But really...isn't this the only primate fossil found in NA?
Is it the ancestor of Lucy, et. al.?

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:31 pm

stan wrote:But really...isn't this the only primate fossil found in NA?
Is it the ancestor of Lucy, et. al.?

I didn't have time to thoroughly read these but apparently they've been finding primates in the north american west for a while.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... mates.html
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/an ... ruled.html

Here's a searchable databse of the finds (if you know your phylogeny):
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/nafmsd.html

stan · Post by **stan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:45 pm

Forum Monk, thanks for providing those links on early
primates. More stuff to scratch my head about.
I liked the second link a lot...it puts things in perspective.

Stan