human evolution's missing link found (95% complete fossil, w/ pics)

[emazur]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...Lemur_Monkey_Hailed_As_Mans_Earliest_Ancestor
documentary coming within a week:
http://www.revealingthelink.com/more-about-ida/the-film

"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals," he said.

"This is the one that connects us directly with them.

"Now people can say 'okay we are primates, show us the link'.

"The link they would have said up to now is missing - well it's no longer missing."

With her human-like nails instead of claws, and opposable big toes, she is placed at the very root of human evolution when early primates first developed features that would eventually develop into our own.

Another important discovery is the shape of the talus bone in her foot, which humans still have in their feet millions of lifetimes later.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

This article is the equivilent to a headline saying, "Apple falling from tree caught on tape! Newton's theory of gravity finally proven"

 

[LATruth]

This article is the equivilent to a headline saying, "Apple falling from tree caught on tape! Newton's theory of gravity finally proven"

Agreed, this however is a new fossil. I think this "discovery" only further substantiates a claim already widely believed in most circles, but there are also MANY arguments on these boards on creation vs evolution, and this was more directed towards the creationists. This discovery has the potential to rock some belief system's foundations to the core and convert a "THEORY" of evolution to a scientific law.

This IMO is a BIG deal.

 

[idiom]

If two of them are found then it stops being a transitional fossil and becomes a whole species.

 

[sevin]

Is this the global event that will "change everything" that the History Channel has been talking about? http://www.history.com/content/this-changes-everything

If so, how disappointing. I don't think one Christian will turn atheist over this. Nothing will change.

 

[Aratus]

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lemurs are cute, warmblooded...and fuzzy
and raccoons can wonderously shuck corn


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[vegaspilot03]

i still want to believe that planet x is coming. lol

 

[Aratus]

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread464921/pg1
just when we all were wondering if this would
have an impact on the palin voters or huck's army...

 

[werdd]

http://www.google.com/

look at the logo today

 

[TurtleBurger]

This article is the equivilent to a headline saying, "Apple falling from tree caught on tape! Newton's theory of gravity finally proven"

That's what I like to hear. All these evolutionists that are saying "this finally proves evolution" are admitting they were lying when they called it a proven fact before. I admire your consistency Mitt.

 

[Alawn]

Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution. The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.

Wow this is really dishonest. How in the hell is this the missing link? It is a lemur/monkey fossil. This is a link but not a significant one anybody will care about. Nobody gives that much of a crap about links between primates and other animals or any of the other million links between each class of animal. "The missing link" is between humans and chimps. If we already know we are closest to chimps, then gorillas, then orangutans, then gibbons, then monkeys, then what does this really prove at all. Are people going to say "oh now i believe humans came from evolution and are descended from animals" because of this? No. If the existance of chimps doesn't do it then this sure wont. Maybe they will say lemurs are related to monkeys. This is not a huge mind blowing discovery.

This isn't "a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom" it is a link between monkeys and lemurs. We already know humans are from apes. A direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom would have to be a link between humans and other apes. This is no more amazing of a find than an early reptile/mammal, or an early amphibian/reptile, or an early amphibian/fish.

Sure this is a nice find but they are being really dishonest about how they are hyping it.

 

[Cowlesy]

I always wondered why I have this stupid tailbone.

 

[LATruth]

That's what I like to hear. All these evolutionists that are saying "this finally proves evolution" are admitting they were lying when they called it a proven fact before. I admire your consistency Mitt.

It was a THEORY previously. Your entire statement is eyeballs deep in bullshit.

Even after this "discovery", I still say this MIGHT turn the THEORY of evolution into a scientific law. Only then will it be factual in the scientific community. Until then, evolution and creationism are just common ideas shared by man to explain "why".

 

[torchbearer]

One thing I haven't figure out with evolution-
How did a species requiring both a male and female parts to reproduce come into being from amino acid soup.
Both parts would have to randomly come about at the same time and same location with the right sets of chromosomes to happen.
That doesn't pass Occam's razors.

 

[Dieseler]

This fossil proves the Reptillians do exist.
A dinosaur with opportunistic thumbs.
Reptar lives.

 

[Kraig]

One thing I haven't figure out with evolution-
How did a species requiring both a male and female part to reproduce come into being from amino acid soup.
Both parts would have to randomly come about at the same time and same location with the right sets of chromosomes to happen.
That doesn't pass Occam's razors.

The complexity of your whole body or life itself doesn't pass Occam's Razor. Far too often people use Occam's Razor to avoid things they do not understand, I'm not saying that's what you are doing, but it certainly doesn't prove anything.

 

[Dieseler]

I want me one of them razors.

 

[Objectivist]

Blows my theory, I thought all along that I was the missing link.

 

[LATruth]

One thing I haven't figure out with evolution-
How did a species requiring both a male and female parts to reproduce come into being from amino acid soup.
Both parts would have to randomly come about at the same time and same location with the right sets of chromosomes to happen.
That doesn't pass Occam's razors.

I think you would enjoy this article given the nature of your question.

Fungi with a primitive sexuality may shed light on the origins of maleness.

 

[torchbearer]

The complexity of your whole body or life itself doesn't pass Occam's Razor. Far too often people use Occam's Razor to avoid things they do not understand, I'm not saying that's what you are doing, but it certainly doesn't prove anything.

yeah, but for something to be fact, it has to be proven. I have read a lot, and I do believe our life forms on this planet have evolved/mutated over time.
Problem comes when you speak of origin and how things became to begin with.

This is a topic that is always skipped over, and I think it should be address.
You can say that evolution itself passes occam's razor. you look at the evidence of a species evolving over time, and the simplest explanation is that you see a pattern of progression in a species.
But you can't say the same thing about things evolving from the simplest biological compounds.
To dismiss this, is to avoid the issue because it doesn't fit the idea that you want.