Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found --Disproves "Missing Link - Page 2

Kevy Baby · 10-01-2009, 07:39 PM

It's all a vast right-wing conspiracy

JWBear · 10-01-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

It's all a vast right-wing conspiracy

Isn't everything?

Alex · 10-01-2009, 07:46 PM

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

Alex · 10-01-2009, 10:35 PM

Yeah, and the larger and softer the animal the rarer it is to end up a fossil.

You have to die and then have your body almost immediately end up in a situation that will prevent decay or being eaten. Then have that situation be stable enough that you won't be eroded to dust before we modern humans can find it but not so hard to access that we can't actually find it.

Then on top of that it wouldn't be surprising to learn that the total world population of these hominids at any one time was in the thousands or tens of thousands and it's pretty amazing we found even one in recognizable condition.

Finding parts of 36 suggests we got really lucky with a well timed (for us, not so much them) hippopotamus stampede.

cirquelover · 10-02-2009, 12:17 AM

Did they really have hippopotamus' back then? I think it should at least be a mastedon or something cooler.

3894 · 10-02-2009, 09:16 AM

I'm not buying that conjecture about ovulation and this find's bipedalism, are you?

Alex · 10-02-2009, 09:32 AM

I'm not nearly expert enough to have an opinion on how strong the claims are. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out if many of the interpretations end up being discarded.

I'm looking forward to Science Friday today on NPR. I'm assuming this will be much covered.

3894 · 10-06-2009, 06:02 AM

So, Daughter #1 is a Journalism major and writes for her college newspaper. Yesterday, she interviewed two of the anthropologists involved in this find because they're at her college. Hubbo was very happy about this until she e-mailed him about the interview and I quote:

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Yeah, thanks for the links, Dad. I just asked them what a typical day was like, things like that.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Stupid National Geographic hacks. They should get back to showing me naked aboriginal boobies.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yeah, and the larger and softer the animal the rarer it is to end up a fossil. You have to die and then have your body almost immediately end up in a situation that will prevent decay or being eaten. Then have that situation be stable enough that you won't be eroded to dust before we modern humans can find it but not so hard to access that we can't actually find it. Then on top of that it wouldn't be surprising to learn that the total world population of these hominids at any one time was in the thousands or tens of thousands and it's pretty amazing we found even one in recognizable condition. Finding parts of 36 suggests we got really lucky with a well timed (for us, not so much them) hippopotamus stampede.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I'm not nearly expert enough to have an opinion on how strong the claims are. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out if many of the interpretations end up being discarded. I'm looking forward to Science Friday today on NPR. I'm assuming this will be much covered.
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