11-09-2005, 01:13 AM
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Originally Posted by MetaMan
HIS HUNCH WAS DUE TO ARTHRITIS,
dont spread misinformation.
there is NO PROVEN LINK, the missing link like i thought HAS NOT been found.
the 100% major difference is the straight spines of humans, if you do not understand why this is such a huge difference then there is no need to continue this conversation.
this is science, in science you do not just "fill in holes" that is theory not FACT.
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fair enough. actually he didnt have an upright position due to arthritis as you believe, but the other way around.
anyway, here is your proof. sorry to burst your bubble, but theyve found the missing link
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If there was any lingering question about the early manifestation of bipedality in human evolutionary history, it has been erased by recent fossil discoveries: a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from Ethiopia, found last year, and a 4.2-million-year-old hominid near Lake Turkana in Kenya, recently reported. The newly identified species were older more primitive and much more ape-like than any hominids known before, but already they were bipedal -- certainly the younger one, probably the other as well.
"This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages," said Dr. Alan Walker, an anatomist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in early human studies. He and Dr. Meave Leakey, a paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya, who is Richard Leakey's wife, discovered the Turkana fossils, to which they have given the new species name Australopithecus anamensis.
Dr. Tim D. White, a paleontologist at the University of California at Berkeley, excavated the 4.4-million-year-old hominid, so different from anything seen before that it has been assigned to an entirely new genus as well as species name Ardipithecus ramidus. Dr White has yet to assemble and analyze the pelvis and lower limb bones, but he has inferred from other evidence that these creatures probably had an erect posture for walking. They resembled apes more than even anamensis does, showing primitive qualities that might be expected of creatures more than five million years old.
"With ramidus," he said, "we are very very close to the hominid-ape split, surprisingly close."
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li.../l_071_04.html
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