The missing link has been found!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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No, it is not a member of this forum but a creature found in a cave in South Africa that will change are thinking on evolution. This is a great step forward in our knowledge of ourselves and we should celebrate it I will, how about you?
 

Just check any news source. It is a big story...
 

Snipped from the BBC

''The species, which has been named naledi, has been classified in the grouping, or genus, Homo, to which modern humans belong.

The researchers who made the find have not been able to find out how long ago these creatures lived - but the scientist who led the team, Prof Lee Berger, told BBC News that he believed they could be among the first of our kind (genus Homo) and could have lived in Africa up to three million years ago.

What we are seeing is more and more species of creatures that suggests that nature was experimenting with how to evolve humans, thus giving rise to several different types of human-like creatures originating in parallel in different parts of Africa. Only one line eventually survived to give rise to us," he told BBC News.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34192447
 
Yes, whoever created this experiment has made a mess of it...:eek:nthego: (Or is it whomever?)
 
hollydolly said:
Snipped from the BBC

''The species, which has been named naledi, has been classified in the grouping, or genus, Homo, to which modern humans belong.

The researchers who made the find have not been able to find out how long ago these creatures lived - but the scientist who led the team, Prof Lee Berger, told BBC News that he believed they could be among the first of our kind (genus Homo) and could have lived in Africa up to three million years ago.

What we are seeing is more and more species of creatures that suggests that nature was experimenting with how to evolve humans, thus giving rise to several different types of human-like creatures originating in parallel in different parts of Africa. Only one line eventually survived to give rise to us," he told BBC News.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34192447
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Yeah. It isn't simple. There is no single line, so no single "link". As one archaeologist put it ; Forget the branching tree idea, its more like the tangled root system. Technology is really moving our knowledge fast. I read the other day that we do carry some Neanderthal DNA. I think possibly 17%, but that's on recall, don't hold me to it.
 
Ralphy1 said:
Was Mother Nature or God experimenting?
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Perhaps neither. Perhaps something other worldly was looking for the best body for this planet. Or there were isolated pockets of different or higher levels of evolution. After what 5 mass extinctions maybe it took a while for the big picture to develop.
 
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