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Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 4:11pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
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Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 4:16pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
^^^ |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 4:34pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools - Romans 1:22 |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 4:46pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
For those who cannot watch the video, please read article below. "MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs? May 19, 2009—Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins. In a new book, documentary, and promotional Web site, paleontologist Jorn Hurum, who led the team that analyzed the 47-million-year-old fossil seen above, suggests Ida is a critical missing-link species in primate evolution (interactive guide to human evolution from National Geographic magazine). (Among the team members was University of Michigan paleontologist Philip Gingerich, a member of the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.) The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs. "This is the first link to all humans," Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, said in a statement. Ida represents "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor." Ida, properly known as Darwinius masillae, has a unique anatomy. The lemur-like skeleton features primate-like characteristics, including grasping hands, opposable thumbs, clawless digits with nails, and relatively short limbs. "This specimen looks like a really early fossil monkey that belongs to the group that includes us," said Brian Richmond, a biological anthropologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the study, published this week in the journal PLoS ONE. But there's a big gap in the fossil record from this time period, Richmond noted. Researchers are unsure when and where the primate group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans split from the other group of primates that includes lemurs. "[Ida] is one of the important branching points on the evolutionary tree," Richmond said, "but it's not the only branching point." At least one aspect of Ida is unquestionably unique: her incredible preservation, unheard of in specimens from the Eocene era, when early primates underwent a period of rapid evolution. (Explore a prehistoric time line.) "From this time period there are very few fossils, and they tend to be an isolated tooth here or maybe a tailbone there," Richmond explained. "So you can't say a whole lot of what that [type of fossil] represents in terms of evolutionary history or biology." In Ida's case, scientists were able to examine fossil evidence of fur and soft tissue and even picked through the remains of her last meal: fruits, seeds, and leaves. What's more, the newly described "missing link" was found in Germany's Messel Pit. Ida's European origins are intriguing, Richmond said, because they could suggest—contrary to common assumptions—that the continent was an important area for primate evolution. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by folaski: 5:28pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
^^^ more confussion. nothing specific. there is always a missing link. |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 6:42pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 6:57pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
^^ Thanks, I must be behind the times. |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Jenwitemi(m): 10:49pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
Lol! davidylan: 2000 years behind the times, most times. That is what happens to people who live inside the pages of ancient religious scriptures most of their lives. frosbel: |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by Nobody: 10:53pm On Oct 14, 2011 |
Jenwitemi: many of us have lives you know . . . lives that dont necessarily depend on ferreting for articles to hammer atheists on the head. |
Re: Scientists Claim To Have Found The "missing Link" Again by thehomer: 12:47pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
Hmm. People are very busy I see. |
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