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Oldest Human Fossil Fills In 2.8-Million-Year-Old Gap In Evolution
GeekyKhan writes Archaeologists have unearthed a human jawbone—with teeth-- that is believed to be the oldest remains ever found from early humans. It belonged to the earliest specimen of Homo and dates back 2.8 million years. From NPR: "Although it's risky to say you've got the first or oldest of anything, Brian Villmoare, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is sure he and his team have the earliest specimen of Homo, the human genus. 'Oh, yeah, it definitely is,' he says. 'We were looking for it — and by miraculous chance we happened to find it.' Villmoare and an international team from the U.S. and Ethiopia found a lower jaw with five teeth in a region of Ethiopia called Afar. They were working a hill that was full of fossils. 'I was on the other side of the hill,' he recalls, 'and they said, 'Brian! Brian! Come over here.' The partial jawbone — just the left side – was lying on the ground, having eroded out of the hill. Several dating methods confirmed its age as roughly 400,000 years older than the previous record for a human-related fossil."
This particular gap has become two gaps.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I think that species of homo needed a toothbrush.
Now there's two gaps instead of one. One before and one after this one.
And that's the way it will be until we have found at least one complete line all the way from our great ape ancestor up to today. Just one person missing is a missing link, and that missing link will be used by religious fanatics as missing links have been since Darwin.
Stop badgering Larry King for information!
Can someone link the new/latest chain of ancestors?
From NPR: "Although it's risky to say you've done it first Christopher Columbus, is sure he and his team have found westward passage to India"
'Oh, yeah, it definitely is,' he says. 'We were looking for it — and by miraculous chance we happened to find it.'
So humans come from Afar?
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It belonged to the earliest specimen of Homo and dates back 2.8 million years.
Firstly the world is not that long. Secondly - he was a homo, which is both un-Christian and disgusting
A partial jawbone? That's it? I'm not convinced you can extrapolate an entirely new species from a partial jawbone. Sorry. It's just pure guesses.
Scientists believe the find is of a woman. When asked how they knew that, a spokesperson said "well, it was open".
I mean, I recently watched the video of the creation museum down south and they very explicitly state that humans and dinosaurs both co-habitated w/in the last 6,000 years, give or take a millennium. Cuz, you know, the Bible....
If I sound stupid, it's not me talking....
Just another Piltdown Man or Peking Man or Nebraska Man.
"[B]y miraculous chance we happened to find it." Sure, and I got a rare Poloraoid of a T-rex eating one of the Geico cave men I can sell you for cheap.
"We were looking for it — and by miraculous chance we happened to find it."
Than you probably didn't find it. You created the result you desired. If you're conducting research science, and you got the result you want. You probably did "science" wrong!
every time "missing gap" is used to discuss/describe evolution. We will never find all relevant fossils. Most intermediate iterations were never fossilized in the first place. The "fossil record" can never be complete. All we can do with the infinitesimally small percentage of fossils we do discover is use them to confirm, or refute, the theory of evolution as it currently exists, and, perhaps, revise the theory as required to account for new discoveries and observations. Science!
The USA is only 4X older than me...perspective
Before ISIS bulldozes it.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Than you probably didn't find it.
You did "english" wrong too!
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
It just created two new gaps. Just ask Ken Ham.
Wow, it was just laying around in a pile of rubble! Of course this means it is 2.8 million years old! It is not like ancient humans could dig holes or anything.
Funny they even mention Lucy, a know fraud containing bones found scattered over a river bed over many miles and even in different layers. No one cares. There is too much money tied up in this. Plus it is anti-church, anti-God, so lets shout this discovery from the hilltops!
Because apes didn't first turn into Africans, did they... that would be 'racist'... LOL.
Let's keep denying reality...
That's a long way.
The correct answer is 42.
Did you drop out of 3rd grade or eat paint chips as a kid?
Yes he did. Hence he goes around posting strawmen for others to knock down. Thinks it's clever.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
There was no evolution. Watch Kent Hovinds movies.
"Ooo Ooo Ooo! A new bone! It all makes perfect sense now!"
It is just AMAZING the intellectual somersaults you have to go through to believe this crap.
But I'm the crank for believing an entity created it all with deliberation and purpose.
The human genus does not a human make. Homo Sapien is only about 250K years old. Therefore a 2.8 million year gap makes no sense. What a misleading title... fracking say what you mean. The Oldest HOMO Fossil was found. Not human.
how come it's always human ancestors we find and never ape or some other primates ancestors?
this fact alone strikes me as funny. and not funny ha ha, funny.
you'd think that just once, somebody would stumble upon one by mistake if nothing else. guess there is no money/glory in that so they're all ancestors to man.
I got a fossil to sell you that bridges all kinds of gaps.
What "homo" is, is a matter of arbitrary definition.
Want to make it the case that a fossil discovery is, or is not, the oldest example of a category you made up? No problem, just change your criteria to suit.