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Evidence of the Missing Link Found?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-in-the-dirt-still-an-important-skill dept.

HUADPE writes to tell us CNN is reporting that scientists in northeastern Ethiopia recently discovered a skull that they think may be evidence of the "missing link" between Homo erectus and modern man. From the article: "The hominid cranium -- found in two pieces and believed to be between 500,000 and 250,000 years old -- 'comes from a very significant period and is very close to the appearance of the anatomically modern human,' said Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Ethiopia."

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  1. Re:Obviously by Sykil · · Score: 1, Troll

    And God created the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

  2. We're the missing link by Greg_D · · Score: 1, Troll

    When the great Cola plague of 2012 arrives after a bottling plant leak in Atlanta, Georgia, we will all be consumed by gallons and gallons of Coca cola. If it can eat a steak in 4 days, imagine how much YOU it can eat! The ones who survive will be lucky and/or have figured out stairs or stilts. They will live off of elephants, tree nuts, fruit, and giraffe will become a main course. The bones in our coffins will be disintegrated, and there shall be nothing left!

    Of course, geeks have nothing to worry about anyway, seeing as how being a missing link means that you were actually a link to something. Too bad socks and pr0n are killing you guys off in record numbers!