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Homo Just Became Less Special

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Homo Just Became Less Special
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Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 12:25 pm
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/obse...ls-update/

Quote:Archaeologists Take Wrong Turn, Find World's Oldest Stone Tools

Quote:Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction. They are so old, in fact, that they predate the earliest fossils representing our genus, Homo, by half a million years. As such they suggest that stone tool manufacture began not with Homo, but with a more primitive member of the human family.
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 1:01 pm
Bah, what would this help, when some people can only count to 6000 years?
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 1:14 pm
The dating methods are fawlty. The samples are contaminated. The archaeologists have a theory and are making the results fit. The speed of light wasn't always constant. God put them there......

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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 1:20 pm
Really though I'd be getting something else when I clicked the title. That's happening a lot lately Tongue
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 1:24 pm
Why would it have to be a human ancestor? It could be from a different family branch altogether
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 2:16 pm (This post was last modified: October 22, 2015 at 2:16 pm by Chad32.)
Homos aren't special anymore. Heteros are back on top.
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October 22, 2015 at 2:17 pm (This post was last modified: October 22, 2015 at 2:18 pm by Longhorn.)
(October 22, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Really though I'd be getting something else when I clicked the title. That's happening a lot lately Tongue

I was expecting a silly xtian Poe being homophobic to point and laugh at.

I is disappoint.



But yeah, cool c:
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 2:18 pm (This post was last modified: October 22, 2015 at 2:18 pm by Alex K.)
Oh I love this! And from my alma mater no less!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 2:19 pm
(October 22, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Really though I'd be getting something else when I clicked the title. That's happening a lot lately Tongue

Taking the wrong turn can have astonishing consequences, as we learn in the article Smile
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RE: Homo Just Became Less Special
October 22, 2015 at 3:57 pm
If you think about it, we're not even the only species to use tools now. Chimps use them and even crows are known to use them on occasion.
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