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 Post subject: Missing link, Darwinius masillae, found.
PostPosted: May 20th, 2009, 10:46 am 
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I saw this on my Google start site and wanted to learn more. Apparently, paleontologists have found the missing link that "bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs".

Pretty cool.

Here's the story: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... sing-link-found.html

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Ah yes, I saw this on the bbc news site. I'm interested to see if it's going to be found to be a fake, like Piltdown man.

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Theres a documentary or something about this next tuesday on BBC1, caught an advert for it as the apprentise was finishing if anyones interested.

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Yeah I just saw this on google too. It's pretty interesting, hopefully one day they'll be able to pinpoint each step from monkeys to humans. That's near impossible but who knows in the future. And didn't they just find a very preserved baby mammoth too? Not as interesting as the "Missing Link" but still cool.
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Wasn't the fossil they call 'Lucy' (Australopithecus) already considered to be the missing link?

Anyway, it's good that they find these things. Sooner or later, creationists will have no choice but to accept evolution as the fact that it is.

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ryan1 wrote:
Wasn't the fossil they call 'Lucy' (Australopithecus) already considered to be the missing link?

Anyway, it's good that they find these things. Sooner or later, creationists will have no choice but to accept evolution as the fact that it is.

this is going farther back to when we split from lemurs. lucy is the split from apes if im not mistaken

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to be honest, almost every fossil has been considered "the missing link". such as, which animal started using tools? no clue, hey we found rocks and wood, missing link.

hey when did we have teeth? no idea
hey this chip has a few teeth missing link.

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Well, it is supposed that all human life started off in Africa, but there were other human tribes living around the world In different places. Scientists believe that they died but the African tribes lived on, they then migrated to England and all the other main countries (I won't go too in-depth) and then our whole civilization was born. Whats amazing about it is that us 6.6 billion humans started out as literally a handful of people. One tribe.
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Humus wrote:
Well, it is supposed that all human life started off in Africa, but there were other human tribes living around the world In different places. Scientists believe that they died but the African tribes lived on, they then migrated to England and all the other main countries (I won't go too in-depth) and then our whole civilization was born. Whats amazing about it is that us 6.6 billion humans started out as literally a handful of people. One tribe.

Maybe we should start saying 'they multiply like prehistoric humans' then rather than rabbits =P

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ryan1 wrote:
Wasn't the fossil they call 'Lucy' (Australopithecus) already considered to be the missing link?

Anyway, it's good that they find these things. Sooner or later, creationists will have no choice but to accept evolution as the fact that it is.


Yeah I find that people who can't grasp the fact that we're here because of evolution annoying, I hope they keep finding more fossils although there's already more than enough evidence to approach evolution as fact.

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