Paleontologists Find Species With Links to 'Lucy Skeleton'* evolution

[IChing]

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: April 12, 2006

In following the fossil tracks of human evolution, scientists have for years searched for links between Australopithecus, the kin of the famous "Lucy" skeleton, and even earlier possible ancestors. Now, they think they have found some connections in Ethiopia.

An international team of paleontologists is reporting the discovery of transitional species superimposed in sediments in the neighborhood of a single site. The findings are to appear Thursday in the journal Nature.

Tim D. White, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was a leader of the team, and his colleagues said the 4.1-million-year-old fossils were anatomically intermediate between the earlier species Ardipithecus ramidus and the later species Australopithecus afarensis, the Lucy family. The newfound bones and teeth are the earliest remains of the most primitive Australopithecus, known as anamensis.

"This new discovery closes the gap between the fully blown australopithecines and earlier forms we call Ardipithecus," Dr. White said in a statement. "We now know where Australopithecus came from before four million years ago.">>>>>snip

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/science/12cnd-fossil.html?ex=1302494400&en=207f54d067cf2ace&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


Damn Science now what am I gonna do with my creationism science class.
I guess I will have to call the Kansas school board for further directions

[eleny]

1. This is so cool!

[magellan]

2. Oh, Lowered! This is SERIES!!111!

The scientifics are blaspheming, my God!1 Send down your rightious rath and smote -- smite -- kill them all!!

:rofl:

Cool beans.

[Maat]

3. Exactly!

HeeHee. I get a kick out of watching the 'Creation Science' program on the AngelOne channel (or whatever) as I'm putting my kid to sleep. She likes me to sit beside the bed sometimes as she goes to sleep, and believe me, this puts her to sleep. I like to take down the 'arguments,' and then go to my engineer hubby (also has a law degree), and see what he says. He just laughs.

Where you are making your mistake: our Creation Science friends have said that whole Carbon-14 test is just bunk. They never quite mention why it is bunk.

[jrw14125]

4. and a catfish that beathes air and hunts on land...

bad 2 weeks for the fundies. this iof course just means more gay-bashing, and email campaigns about the secular leftie agenda...

[rodeodance]

5. how exciting.

[xchrom]

6. there will be nightmares in jesusland tonight!

[zara]

7. Isn't it Amazing the Tricks on Scientists God can play...

of making evolution seem so plausible when we all know this all occurred in the last 5000 years. At least all right thinking people.

[Occulus]

8. So... God's a liar? n/t

[Up2Late]

10. 5000 YEARS, Please, everyone know the Earth is 6000 years old!

Or so I'm told, actual knowledge is Sinful (tricks of the Devil). :sarcasm: :evilgrin:

[stepnw1f]

11. What's More Amazing is How Wrong the Arrogant Self-Proclaimed...

"right" thinking people are. But then again, it should come at no surprise, for look at the backward greedy fascist they elected. Maybe they need fairytales to fill that space in their empty heads or just do not have the capacity to conceptualize something such as evolution. Kinda makes me think, these self-proclaimed "reicht-thinking" people just haven't evolved and are too scared to change their medieval-myopic-egocentric way of living or thinking.

Also, anyone needing to refute science to prove their faith have no faith at all.

[Rocket Surgeon]

9. Someone explain to me why this story is a big deal?

It will not convince anybody of the validity of Evolution. All this find did was split one gap in to two gaps.

The Creationist Bible Beaters will still live in theor haze of a 6,000 year-old Earth.

[stepnw1f]

12. Maybe Because It's Not for People with NO BRAINS to

think outside the box they live in.

[Rocket Surgeon]

13. Unfortunately they out breed us.

[stepnw1f]

14. Breeding Can't Save Dumb People (nt)

[IChing]

15. "It will not convince" anybody "of the validity of Evolution"

So you put the totality of your reality in a finite of an absolute?

It will not convince "anybody"
which means in the english language
that anyone is everyone?"


Never mind "anyone": excluded from that statement that believes otherwise
is not counted in your exclusionary logic.

edited for double quote marks

[M155Y_A1CH]

17. It's important because

With this news we are welcoming another link to the human chain. The picture of man walking forward first as a Neanderthal then morphing into Erectus needs to be updated.

[Rocket Surgeon]

18. Will a more up to date picture

convince the Evangelicals the validity of the Theory of Evolution?

[FlaGranny]

19. The science was not done to convince

fundamentalists. It was done to further knowledge. Brains not open to knowledge will not accept it, of course.

[janx]

22. Convincing fundamentalists is not the purpose of science. n/t

[kineneb]

16. Australopithecines usually found in fundie churches

seems they have difficulty walking upright and even more difficulty speaking in more than grunts. Also check out their sloping foreheads.

:evilgrin:

[Kailassa]

20. How dare you post such anti-PC slurs !!!

I'll have you know that I was an australopithecine in a past life, so I seriesly resemble that remark.

:grr: :spank: :grr:

[janx]

21. WONDERFUL NEWS!

I cannot get enough of these finds. Lucy was found...in the 1980s, yes?

[Javaman]

23. Dis tain't none of that evil-lution, gods is gone an played tricks on us

to be testin' our faith.

(Just trying to think like one of them makes my head hurt)