Ancient Skull Unearthed in Africa

BrianGa writes "This BBC article reports on a skull which scientists say is the most important discovery in the search for the origins of humankind since the first Australopithecus ape-man remains were found in Africa in the 1920s. The newly discovered skull finally puts to rest any idea that there might be a single missing link between humans and chimpanzees, they say. Analysis of the ancient find is not yet complete, but already it is clear that it has an apparently puzzling combination of modern and ancient features."

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Not necessarily. The creationist view would be that
God created men, apes and whatever this creature
was. It's just extinct now. The fact that it has
similarities to other species in and of itself is
not proof of common ancestry. Evolution is one
theory that explains it, creation is another.

most significant discovery of the century...

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I think that you should set this story a little higher. While the ethno-palentologist(s) who found the skull (and jaw fragments) won't say that its the missing link (quite correctly, we don't know that such a thing exits yet), it does fit right into the middle of a five million year gap in our knowledge (between 10 and 5 million years ago we had nada).

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