The first major analysis of one of the earliest known hominids suggests that humans may not have evolved from apes. In fact, the reverse could be true: Apes might have evolved from the hominids that eventually evolved into humans.I recently put some of my own thoughts on the evolution/creation argument in a post here. The whole monkey-to-man thing never made sense to me.
“This is one of the most important discoveries for the study of human evolution,” said David Pilbeam, curator of paleoanthropology at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
The analysis of Ardipithecus ramidus, or Ardi, a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, extends the story of humankind: The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
An analysis of the 125 fossils that made up her skeleton, discovered in 1994, revealed she had many traits that do not appear in modern-day African apes, for instance, an ability to walk upright on two legs - leading to the conclusion that apes evolved extensively since we shared a common ancestor.
The research is being published in a special edition of the journal Science.
Friday, October 02, 2009
Monkey-to-Man? Maybe Not.
Hmm, this is interesting:
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The moment someone bothers me about the six litteral days thing, I just remind them that there's nothing in the relativity modern physics that forbids the possibility of 6 days passing in one frame of reference while 6 billion years pass in another. This is commonly written about in science fiction.
Now maybe that's not THE answer but it is a plausable answer, and therefore 6 days is not a problem for an old universe observation.
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