Early Human Ancestor, Australopithecus Sediba, Fossils Discovered in Rock.
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Scientists from the Wits Institute for Human Evolution based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have just announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of 'Karabo', the type skeleton of Australopithecus sediba, discovered at the Malapa Site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009.
Professor Lee Berger, a Reader in Palaeoanthropology and the Public Understanding of Science at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution, will make the announcement at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China on 13 July 2012.
"We have discovered parts of a jaw and critical aspects of the body including what appear to be a complete femur (thigh bone), ribs, vertebrae and other important limb elements, some never before seen in such completeness in the human fossil record," says Berger. "This discovery will almost certainly make Karabo the most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever discovered. We are obviously quite excited as it appears that we now have some of the most critical and complete remains of the skeleton, albeit encased in solid rock. It's a big day for us as a team and for our field as a whole."
The remains are invisible to the casual observer and are entrenched in a large rock about one metre in diameter. It was discovered almost three years ago, but lay unnoticed in the Wits laboratories until early last month. Prof. Berger and his wife Jackie Smilg, a radiologist at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, who is conducting her PhD on the CT scanning of fossil material embedded in rock, scanned the large rock in a state of the art CT scanner.
Berger added that negotiations had begun with the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom and the Smithsonian in Washington. "We have already donated casts of Australopithecus sediba to these three institutions, amongst others," says Berger.
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[URL]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120712162744.htm[/URL]
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+1 for Darwin.
But Darwin couldn't have existed without the almighty lord himself directing his every step!
praise jesus our lord and savior
[QUOTE=CaLeB-;36745908]But Darwin couldn't have existed without the almighty lord himself directing his every step!
praise jesus our lord and savior[/QUOTE]
This is getting old
Weres ur missen link
[QUOTE=Scar;36745928]This is getting old[/QUOTE]
You know who else is old? God. God is a pretty good guy so maybe it's OK to be a little old.
[QUOTE=Scar;36745928]This is getting old[/QUOTE]
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But...how old is it? Couldn't they do some RCD to find out?
[QUOTE=CaLeB-;36745908]But Darwin couldn't have existed without the almighty lord himself directing his every step!
praise jesus our lord and savior[/QUOTE]
omg xD that's hilarious man
you sure showed those pesky creationists!
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Do you really need to fill up every thread you encounter with an image of a combine elite with a caption that is used to escape an argument your afraid you might lose?
[QUOTE=zakedodead;36745957]Weres ur missen link[/QUOTE]
Searching for your good grammar.
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[QUOTE=yawmwen;36745963]You know who else is old? God. God is a pretty good guy so maybe it's OK to be a little old.[/QUOTE]
i agree what a great guy
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it's okay the darker the skin color the more they have sinned
Because hey! Making fun of religion gets us...well nowhere!
Yay 12 posts about NOTHING to do with the article, congrats. This is post 15.
Anyways, this is a huge victory for science if it's intact as they say it is.
The sad thing is though with these fossils, is that they're always so crushed and scattered compared to most others.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36752272]Because hey! Making fun of religion gets us...well nowhere![/QUOTE]
But hell isn't nowhere.
[QUOTE=Chukaba;36752593]But hell isn't nowhere.[/QUOTE]
But hell is [I]now here[/I]
What's with calling every new hominid fossil "human ancestor".
That's like saying "your father is my father because our grandfathers were brothers"
Do you know what ancestor means?
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a : one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]2. (Science: biology) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.[/QUOTE]
Australopithecus is in the line our species comes from. So, human ancestor.
[QUOTE=Jorori;36752738]What's with calling every new hominid fossil "human ancestor".
That's like saying "your father is my father because our grandfathers were brothers"[/QUOTE]
Australopithecus is our ancestor. We descended from them.
Darwin was still religious. People keep forgetting this.
[QUOTE=Gundevil;36753810]Darwin never suggested Humans evolved, he was still religious and just said animals adapt. Human's were still created by God in his mind.[/QUOTE]
His model for natural selection proved to be very effective at explaining evolution, though.
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And he was an atheist anyways, at least at a certain point in his life. He was never traditionally religious, and believed evolution and god were compatible ideas.
we r all human bengs and deservd to be ansestors
[QUOTE=Gundevil;36753810]Darwin was still religious. People keep forgetting this.[/QUOTE]
People also keep forgetting that its very difficult to tell how religious people were that long ago, because denouncing religion at certain times in history was sociopolitical (and sometimes physical) suicide.
Darwin was actually agnostic.
[QUOTE=Wispa;36754334]we r all human bengs and deservd to be ansestors[/QUOTE]
wel sed we r all human bengs and are deservd to haved live
[QUOTE=yawmwen;36753790]Australopithecus is our ancestor. We descended from them.[/QUOTE]
Nah, it doesn't work like this:
[img]http://niggaupload.com/images/xMZKV.png[/img]
It's more like this:
[img]http://niggaupload.com/images/NnH6V.png[/img]
Sharing a common ancestor somewhere a million years ago =/= immediate ancestor
[QUOTE=Jorori;36758291]Nah, it doesn't work like this:
[img]http://niggaupload.com/images/xMZKV.png[/img]
It's more like this:
[img]http://niggaupload.com/images/NnH6V.png[/img]
Sharing a common ancestor somewhere a million years ago =/= immediate ancestor[/QUOTE]
If I remember correctly, the Homo genus is an offshoot of the Australopithecus genus. So it's more like this:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/l1vgM.jpg[/img]
Taken from Wikipedia:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qBRE9.png[/img]
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And according to Wiki's tree, A. sediba [i]is[/i] a direct ancestor to the [i]homo[/i] genus.
[editline]13th July 2012[/editline]
And thanks to this thread, I can't stop whispering [i]Australopithecus[/i] to myself because it's a fun word to say.
[QUOTE=Jorori;36758291]Nah, it doesn't work like this:
[img]http://niggaupload.com/images/xMZKV.png[/img]
It's more like this:
[img]http://niggaupload.com/images/NnH6V.png[/img]
Sharing a common ancestor somewhere a million years ago =/= immediate ancestor[/QUOTE]
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[quote=Wikipedia]It is widely held by archaeologists and palaeontologists that the australopiths played a significant part in human evolution, and it was one of the australopith species that eventually evolved into the Homo genus in Africa around 2 million years ago, which contained within it species like Homo habilis, H. ergaster and eventually the modern human species, H. sapiens sapiens.[/quote]
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