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Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Existentialist1844 » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:19 pm

May be Revealed.

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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by klr » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:20 pm

Also reported by Auntie here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8285180.stm
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Existentialist1844 » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:31 pm

What will theists say about this? :think: :dono:
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Lozzer » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:42 pm

How do they get all that information from a few spurious bones?



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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by AshtonBlack » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:47 pm

Lozzer wrote:How do they get all that information from a few spurious bones?



:think:

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Is the pedant smiley because the question is sarcasm or you geniunely don't know about palaeontology as a science?

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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:53 pm

AshtonBlack wrote:
Lozzer wrote:How do they get all that information from a few spurious bones?



:think:

:pedant:
Is the pedant smiley because the question is sarcasm or you geniunely don't know about palaeontology as a science?
I'm wanting a "no pedagoguery" smiley some days. But I'm afraid it would come at me too frequently. :hehe:
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Possible Human ancestor not described as "missing link"SHOCK

Post by owtth » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:18 pm

I'm quite pleased at the non-sensational tone used by the Beeb, they seem to be restraining themselves as opposed to the usual tactic of overplaying the significance of such developments.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8285180.stm


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Re: Possible Human ancestor not described as "missing link"SHOCK

Post by Animavore » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:18 pm

I feel a merge coming on :eddy:
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Re: Possible Human ancestor not described as "missing link"SHOCK

Post by owtth » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:32 pm

Animavore wrote:I feel a merge coming on :eddy:
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by owtth » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:36 pm

I made a woopsy here Merge or deletion needed, could you do the honours Gawd?
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:36 pm

owtth wrote:I made a woopsy here Merge or deletion needed, could you do the honours Gawd?
You're creating more gaps. :nono:
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Rum » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:43 pm

Has anyone else made the connection? Ardi = RD=Richard the Dawk?

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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Animavore » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:49 pm

Actually I think he's named after the Dusty Bin looking robot in Star Wars.
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Rum » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:52 pm

Animavore wrote:Actually I think he's named after the Dusty Bin looking robot in Star Wars.
Nah - why would they? My brilliant flash of insight is the right one! :biggrin:
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Re: Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin...

Post by Lozzer » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:57 pm

AshtonBlack wrote:
Lozzer wrote:How do they get all that information from a few spurious bones?



:think:

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Is the pedant smiley because the question is sarcasm or you geniunely don't know about palaeontology as a science?
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