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New Fossil of Early Hominid Precursor

sdr writes: "For decades scientists have worked to connect the dots between dozens of fossil discoveries in East and southern Africa in hopes of constructing an accurate picture of human origins. Now, a new find in western Central Africa suggests the picture may be radically different than widely assumed. Check National Geographic for the story."

16 comments

  1. see photo by mpweasel · · Score: 0, Troll
  2. Taco-snotting is dying by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.

    You dont need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snottings future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there wont be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.

    Lets keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Circle-snotting leader Jeff Homos Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Lets see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of CowboiKneels walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.

    All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.

    Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.

    - poopbot: for all your crapflooding needs

  3. uhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    like this?

  4. Duplicate by damiangerous · · Score: 2

    Check the original before posting to this one.

  5. Dupe! by Wrexen · · Score: 2

    Not to be confused with the same thing Here

  6. In other news by legLess · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, researchers at MIT are now looking at ways to etch binary data on the inside of human skulls, claiming that human skull bone is a more reliable and longer-lived storage medium than most others available.

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    This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
    1. Re:In other news by JabberWokky · · Score: 2
      Stuff the skull with chicken feathers, and you have the makings of a Voodoo supercomputer!

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      Evan

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      "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  7. Who cares? by pcs305 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody cared the firts time this was on /. (like hours ago) and nobody cares now. The scientist have nothing to do and keep on changing their story's. And really if an ape skull excites you, you need a vacation.

  8. dup2() by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    dup2( int story1, int story2 );

  9. Moderate the Editors by 4/3PI*R^3 · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Another day another duplicate story on Slashdot!! Comments get slammed for redundancy in moderation. But /. editors can be redundant with a vengance!!

    How about a moderation system for the stories like Kuro5hin?

    How about a moderation system for the editors? Each moderator gets 5 comment moderations and 1 story moderation. The story moderation goes for or against the editor. If the editor's "editor karma" drops below a minimum level then his story postings require a second editor's approval. Editor moderation could be SCOOP +2, WIRE +1, WHATEVER +0, WHY DO I CARE -1, BEEN THERE DONE THAT -2.

    Of course CmdrTaco claims this is a difficult problem to solve. God forbid the /. editors simply READ SLASHDOT themselves. How friggin difficult can it be to coordinate the efforts of 4 to 6 guys?

    1. Re:Moderate the Editors by acceleriter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      How friggin difficult can it be to coordinate the efforts of 4 to 6 guys?

      How friggin difficult can it be to properly speak and spell English? That said, I only troll here now. My real participation is on k5, where all the intelligent people from /. went when the big, big banner ads, subscriptions, and editor moderation came to light.

      C'mon, ya' turds. Mod me down. I'm trying to get to post at -1.

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      CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.

    2. Re:Moderate the Editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Then stories could be given a moderator score on the front page and sorted accordingly. If you only wanted to see breaking news then set your story level to +5. If you didn't mind a little redundancy then you could set your story level to +0.

    3. Re:Moderate the Editors by 4/3PI*R^3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      If I had any mod points I'd bitch slap you so hard your Karma would go crying home to it's mommy.

    4. Re:Moderate the Editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Slashdot is "teh sux0r."
      I am the WIPO Troll.
      Really.

      -- J'Raxis

  10. Not big news? by JPriest · · Score: 1

    Well after the second try at it, still didn't make the front page. Silly me, I thought this was interesting. Anyway since there also seems to be a lack of discussion on this topic I thought I would point out that fark also covered the story, and people actually commented on it there if you are curious what they had to say on it. It took a while to read through the 300 or so comments but there were some very good points brought up on it. The arguments there also seemed to be largely dominated by the Evolutionists. The creationists seem to be bringing less and less to the table these days.

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    Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
  11. I thought it was cool.... by Gabreal · · Score: 0

    Even though this story waz printed twice it is still cool...think of it.....well now have just found Bill Gates' long lost grandmother!------- The missing link!