Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found --Disproves "Missing Link

[BarTopDancer]

Story here.

Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.

[Alex]

Just for clarification, it doesn't disprove the "missing link." Disproving the missing link idea in general would be disproving that human and other apes share a common ancestor. It disproves a theory that the last common ancestor between human and other apes would be chimpanzee-like.

And that's if this group's interpretation of the skeleton is correct (and this skeleton is even in our evolutionary path).


But no matter what it is an amazingly cool find.

[Gemini Cricket]

Totally cool find.
But I can't help but wonder... we just found one? Where are all the others?

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

But I can't help but wonder... we just found one? Where are all the others?

Here?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Totally cool find.
But I can't help but wonder... we just found one? Where are all the others?

After 4 million years, it's kind of tough to find these guys.

[Alex]

I think it is pretty clear that the lack of a missing link between this missing link and the other missing link is pretty clear evidence that evolution is a Nazi-istic conspiracy.

[Kevy Baby]

It's all a vast right-wing conspiracy

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex

Just for clarification, it doesn't disprove the "missing link." Disproving the missing link idea in general would be disproving that human and other apes share a common ancestor. It disproves a theory that the last common ancestor between human and other apes would be chimpanzee-like.

And that's if this group's interpretation of the skeleton is correct (and this skeleton is even in our evolutionary path).


But no matter what it is an amazingly cool find.

I just lifted the title from National Geographic, so they're wrong.

[Alex]

Stupid National Geographic hacks. They should get back to showing me naked aboriginal boobies.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Totally cool find.
But I can't help but wonder... we just found one? Where are all the others?

Given the fairly narrow conditions under which dead bodies will produce fossils (dying in a mudbank is a pretty good way to do it) - we are lucky to have found as many fossils as we have.