WASHINGTON (AP) - The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
Lucy Displaced
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Lucy Displaced
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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.
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...and makes the concept of HE conquering the world instead of HSS (and a million to 2 million years earlier) all the more likely!Minimalist wrote:http://apnews.excite.com/article/200910 ... H1K02.html
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
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In boats!HE conquering the world
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.
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Re: Lucy Displaced
And I can hear my Fundie neighbors wailing that the devil has provided them with wrong information. After all, everybody knows that the earth wasn't even here 6 million years ago. 
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Re: Lucy Displaced
Sucks to be them, Leona.
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.
-- George Carlin
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Re: Lucy Displaced
On foot between 2.0 and 1.0 million years BP, because they could. By boat between 1.0 million and 100,000 years BP, because they had to.Minimalist wrote:In boats!HE conquering the world
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Re: Lucy Displaced
By QUANTAS, by heck!
Roy.
Roy.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt