Fossil connects human evolution dots (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

Wednesday, April 12, 2006; Posted: 1:06 p.m. EDT (17:06 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest fossil unearthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so far.

The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered in northeastern Ethiopia helps scientists fill in the gaps of how human ancestors made the giant leap from one species to another.

That's because the newest fossil, the species Australopithecus anamensis, was found in the region of the Middle Awash -- where seven other human-like species spanning nearly 6 million years and three major phases of human development were previously discovered.

"We just found the chain of evolution, the continuity through time," study co-author and Ethiopian anthropologist Berhane Asfaw said in a phone interview from Addis Ababa. "One form evolved to another. This is evidence of evolution in one place through time."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/12/fossil.evolution.ap/index.html

(The other author is Tim White of UC Berkeley, for those of you who follow such things.)

[stepnw1f]

1. Oooops... sorry Fundie Fanatics

the world will never change for you, but you will have to instead. Too bad stupid assholes.

[peacetalksforall]

2. I can't help myself. I grin with glee with each new finding of links

and dates - that precede the Pat Robertson type timeline of earth's age.

[Debau2005]

5. I have to admit

I laughed out loud when I say the headline on MSNBC.com.

I am at a conference so I am not in the office to see my fundie cubemates spin themselves into a fit! :rofl:

[stop the bleeding]

3. K&R n/t

[RobertSeattle]

4. More work of Satan!

:sarcasm:

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Naw. They all lived there together, 6000 years ago.

And they died in the flood.

Don't you know nothing?