Out Lucy, in Ardi..I mean what the frig kind of name is "Ardi"?...for god sakes.

I all seriousness, this intrigues me, so why is Ardi the new missing link if he she is so different as to each?

"It shows that the last common ancestor with chimps didn't look like a chimp, or a human, or some funny thing in between.

Uhm what?

This is actually a million years before lucy. And displays an unexpected mix of advanced characteristics;

Ardi instead shows an unexpected mix of advanced characteristics and of primitive traits seen in much older apes that were unlike chimps or gorillas (interactive: Ardi's key features). As such, the skeleton offers a window on what the last common ancestor of humans and living apes might have been like.


So we regressed(?), as Lucy is more primitive or because they have totally thrown out that modeling ,it appears so and this, is a Biggey. I mean there goes 150 years of research;

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.


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

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I don't understand your comments at all. You make little to no sense.

At any rate, the notion of a missing link is nonsense. The only thing that finding an intermediary fossil of any sort does is create two more "missing links."

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so we decended from somethig else then ?
I'l pulling for walrus' or maybe norwals !

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You didn't actually think that evolutionary theory stated that humans descended from Chimps, did you?

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You might be surprised how many otherwise knowledgeable people believe exactly that.

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agreed. It never ceases to amaze me.

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If humens evolveded from monkies how com there r still monkies!?!?!!?!!??!?!!!

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Neither of them are a 'missing link'... merely just stages in human evolution.

Andrew

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They say its not in-between an human and a chimp and then they go on and on about how it shares traits with humans, chimps and apes.

I also like the last few paragraphs "sex for food". It seems prostitution really is the worlds oldest profession.


I saw a talk from one of the discoverers of Lucy. They said they came up with the name when they were sitting around the campfire listening to music and "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" was playing. They thought what a strange thing it would have been to be walking around 3 million years ago with marmalade skies, etc.

I didnt really care. I descended from mom and dad and a number of ancestors leading back to Scotland, Ireland and England. Before that its neither here nor there.

But I can understand your asking after all this stuff...

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They say those things because they believe chimps and ardipithecus and humans are descended from a common ancestor.

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I know that. From a common ancestor who shared traits of both chimps and humans.

heh... My girlfriend and I were watching TV last night while we were eating dinner, and they mentioned this on the news. It just so happened we were eating a dish with peppers in it that I had grown in the garden. I turned to her and said "See? I grew and cooked food for you. You owe me a blowjob."

Rofl!!!

(pssst, did it work!?)

Oh, she's a whore, she would have given me a blowjob anyway.