Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found

[Bookworm]

Move over, Lucy. And kiss the missing link goodbye.

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.

The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed "Ardi." (See pictures of Ardipithecus ramidus.)

The fossil puts to rest the notion, popular since Darwin's time, that a chimpanzee-like missing link—resembling something between humans and today's apes—would eventually be found at the root of the human family tree. Indeed, the new evidence suggests that the study of chimpanzee anatomy and behavior—long used to infer the nature of the earliest human ancestors—is largely irrelevant to understanding our beginnings.

Full Story Here.

I just love it when a new discovery disrupts the evolutionist's prior notions.

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[manadren]

I just love it when a new discovery disrupts the evolutionist's prior notions.

Thing is, evolutionists love it too.

I don't think Lucy was ever the definitive proof of human evolution, or really even the missing link people describe her to be, I mean outside media generalizations anyway. What we know is that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor. What this shows is that it's farther back than we originally thought. Meaning that some of the traits we share with chimps must have evolved independently, which is kind of interesting.


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[Red Squirrel]

I just love it when a new discovery disrupts the evolutionist's prior notions.

Haha same here. The biggest kick in the butt though is the fact that they found remains of noah's ark a couple years back. Oddly, we hardly ever hear of that. You'd think they'd be deep into that researching it like the Titanic.

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