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Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
(http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/May/Week3/15284798.jpg)
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.
The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world".
They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth".
Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle.
Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.
"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals," he said.
"This is the one that connects us directly with them.
"Now people can say 'okay we are primates, show us the link'.
"The link they would have said up to now is missing - well it's no longer missing."
A team of the world's leading fossil experts, led by Professor Jorn Hurum, of Norway's National History Museum, have been secretly researching the 1ft 9in-tall young female monkey for the past two years.
Scientists say Ida - squashed to the thickness of a beer mat by the immense passage of time - is the most complete primate fossil ever found.
With her human-like nails instead of claws, and opposable big toes, she is placed at the very root of human evolution when early primates first developed features that would eventually develop into our own.
Another important discovery is the shape of the talus bone in her foot, which humans still have in their feet an incredible 70 million lifetimes later.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Missing-Link-Scientists-In-New-York-Unveil-Fossil-Of-Lemur-Monkey-Hailed-As-Mans-Earliest-Ancestor/Article/200905315284582?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15284582_Missing_Link%3A_Scientists_In_New_York_Unveil_Fossil_Of_Lemur_Monkey_Hailed_As_Mans_Earliest_Ancestor
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MattT is the missing link.
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MattT is the missing link.
agreed, although this new fossil has a higher IQ
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Nope, right here:
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z25/Todesfick/iris.jpg)
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TheCoach just told me that it's bullshit.
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TheCoach just told me that it's bullshit.
Yeah he just got done telling me he walked outside and it's only 58 degrees today so there is no way global warming exists.
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
Yeah, we BOTH become worm food.
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
Yes, you can. You're just being disingenuous for the benefit of those here who might believe in that creation nonsense. ;)
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Exactly 47 million years old, huh? Idiots can't tell me if it's going to rain this weekend, but they got that darn carbon datin' down to a science!!! 8)
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Exactly 47 million years old, huh? Idiots can't tell me if it's going to rain this weekend, but they got that darn carbon datin' down to a science!!! 8)
Uh, carbon dating is pretty good science.
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
Correct.
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Uh, carbon dating is pretty good science.
Not according to christians and scientific experts like "The Coach" :D
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Bullshit....here is the real one...
(http://www.wrestlingmark.com/images/2007missinglink.jpg)
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TheCoach just told me that it's bullshit.
X2
coach says the planet is only a few thousand years old......and that dinosaurs didnt exist....
clearly this article is a demo "lib" propaganda piece
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The last "missing link" was a fraud. Why should this be any different?
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...and here is another missing link between ape and man:
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
Yes, we are just highly evolved monkeys.
And we better all go to the same place in the end. Without nature's clown to amuse me in the afterlife as they do now, what'd be the point!
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fascinating how muscle bears worked their way into this thread.
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
You are so fuccking dumb lately
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Not according to christians and scientific experts like "The Coach" :D
thats because they failed chemistry 8)
its all about isotopes.
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Yes, you can. You're just being disingenuous for the benefit of those here who might believe in that creation nonsense. ;)
Honestly, does anyone care what creationists think? Taking the Book of Genesis literally is prima facia evidence that someone is a complete moron with a double-digit IQ.
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Honestly, does anyone care what creationists think? Taking the Book of Genesis literally is prima facia evidence that someone is a complete moron with a double-digit IQ.
QF mother fuckin' T
creationists tire me. I dont bother engaging in any conversation of the sort.
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Honestly, does anyone care what creationists think? Taking the Book of Genesis literally is prima facia evidence that someone is a complete moron with a double-digit IQ.
yeah
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animals are humans too. if scientists could look into the minds of animals they would realize, holy shit! these are little humans in there! Even in a chicken a little human exists.
most humans, other than mankind, know how to live much more natural, healthier and in less complicated way as well. so apparently they are very intelligent too.
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animals are humans too. if scientists could look into the minds of animals they would realize, holy shit! these are little humans in there! Even in a chicken a little human exists.
most humans, other than mankind, know how to live much more natural, healthier and in less complicated way as well. so apparently they are very intelligent too.
hey...thanks Rami!!!!
(that might have been the dumbest thing ive ever read in my 30+ years)
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and your reasoning for deeming my arguments improbable, is?
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TTT
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and your reasoning for deeming my arguments improbable, is?
no no...i looked deep into my dogs eyes.....and saw a little human in there..... ;D
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
millions of hardcore christians jews and muslims on this planet had themselves an o nooo moment ;D
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millions of hardcore christians jews and muslims on this planet had themselves an o nooo moment ;D
They'll get over it. When you're religiously delusional, you can convince yourself of anything.
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I can't wrap my mind around this.
if we're animals, what does that mean? Did we change along the way into something non-animal? Or are we just highly evolved monkeys on a rock floating in space?
It doesn't mean there isn't some higher power that put us all here. But does it mean the monkeys and us go to the same place in the end?
Boggles the mind.
not defending the theory itself but yes...
imagine, this has (in theory) 47 MILLION years... We have a lot of difficult and misteries in our history (and history of evolution) in the last 2000 years (that are more or less well documented), imagine 10.000 years...100.000 years...1 million???
Imagine how we will look like in 1 millions ahead??? (if we survive, lol)
the funny thing is, i typed missing link on google, and i almost found one of these for each year for the last 10 years LOL...hor many missing links are there still ;D