evince (06-08-2017), Phantasmal (06-08-2017)
Oldest Homo sapiens fossils ever found push humanity's birth back to 300,000 years
Digging on a hilltop in the Sahara Desert, scientists have found the most ancient known members of our own species, undermining longstanding ideas about the origins of humanity.
The newfound Homo sapiens fossils — three young adults, one adolescent and a child of 7 or 8 — date back roughly 300,000 years, says a study in this week’s Nature. The next-oldest fossils of Homo sapiens, the scientific name for humans, are about 200,000 years old.
The 200,000-year-old fossils were found in eastern Africa, sometimes called the “Garden of Eden” for its supposedly pivotal role as the birthplace of humanity. But the new fossils are from Morocco in far northern Africa, supporting the theory that the evolution of modern humans was a piecemeal affair that played out across the continent.
“There is no Garden of Eden in Africa,” said Jean-Jacques Hublin, co-author of two new studies describing the fossils and a paleontologist at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. “Or if there is a Garden of Eden, it’s … the size of Africa.”
The new finds confirm “modern humans do not suddenly appear like the Big Bang, with all the bells and whistles that we associate with modern humans,” agrees paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University, who was not associated with the study.
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evince (06-08-2017), Phantasmal (06-08-2017)
So funny......trying to limit God and his creations from infinity past.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
MAGA MAN (06-08-2017)
cancel2 2022 (06-09-2017)
Cypress is trying to provoke another Islamic terror attack
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Stretch (06-08-2017)
Who here believes a guy was born of a virgin mother, was killed and came back to life in a couple of days? lol
This just In::: Trump indicted for living in liberals heads and not paying RENT
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Trump Is Coming back to a White House Near you
Stretch (06-08-2017)
domer76 (06-08-2017)
I'm still amazed that people believe in creationism but are unwilling to follow the actual teachings of Jesus -- who, for all religion's faults, was a pretty cool guy with a good message. Except when he's fighting with Darwin.
Bill (06-08-2017)
For all of our brilliant evolutionists, please explain to the class where original matter came from.
You know, the matter from which all things are made. Where did it come from.
MAGA MAN (06-08-2017)
Agreed. While I don't believe Jesus was a divine being (e.g. God himself), I do think he was a reformer of religion, a philosopher, and moral teacher. Very much like the Buddha.
People like Jerry Falwell (both Sr. and Jr.) and Huckabee, and Graham, and Robertson, preach perversions of Christianity.
Check out Hitchens' farewell to Falwell. It's epic.
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