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Lucy Displaced
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:17 pm
by Minimalist
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200910 ... H1K02.html
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.
Re: Lucy Displaced
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:32 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
...and makes the concept of
HE conquering the world instead of HSS (and
a million to 2 million years earlier) all the more likely!
Re: Lucy Displaced
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:39 pm
by Minimalist
HE conquering the world
In boats!
Re: Lucy Displaced
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:05 pm
by Leona Conner
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.
Re: Lucy Displaced
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:50 pm
by Minimalist
Sucks to be them, Leona.
Re: Lucy Displaced
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:09 am
by Rokcet Scientist
Minimalist wrote:HE conquering the world
In boats!
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.
Re: Lucy Displaced
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:34 am
by Digit
By QUANTAS, by heck!
Roy.