Thu 1 Oct 2009
Scientists announce discovery of earliest prehuman ever found
‘Ardi’ lived 4.4 million years ago
More than a hundred crushed fossil fragments unearthed in Ethiopia have been painstakingly pieced together to reconstruct “Ardi,” the earliest skeleton of a prehuman ever found, providing an extraordinary new glimpse into the largely mysterious period when the ancestors of humans and chimpanzees split, paleontologists said today.
At simultaneous press conferences held in Addis Ababa and Washington, D.C., scientists announced the results of 17 years of excavation and study: the partial skeleton of a 4.4 million-year-old female specimen who would have stood about four feet tall and weighed 110 pounds. Ardi is nicknamed for her species, Ardipithecus ramidus, and offers scientists a bevy of body parts — skull, teeth, pelvis, hands, legs, and feet — to examine for clues about the deepest roots of our evolution.
Source: Boston Globe
If you are religious please ignore this article as it may upset your delicate belief system which hangs by the paper thin thread of distorted facts spanning thousands of years. If you aren’t religious, say hello to Ardi, who was undoubtedly more civilized than 98% of the people I encounter on a daily basis.
What I find to be the most mystifying of all regarding religious people is their ability to refute scientific evidence, discoveries, facts which are accessible to view, touch, witness, but instead hold steadfast to a faith based on writings which can never be validated.
Whenever I hear of a major scientific discovery which flies in the face of religion and the evolution deniers, I immediately think about Chief Wiggum and his famous ‘Nothing To See Here Folks’ scene from the Simpsons.
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