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Offline ReardenSteel

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Ida, "the missing link"
« on: May 19, 2009, 01:34:42 PM »
OK, more like "a" missing link as befits any new part of the fossil record...
http://www.revealingthelink.com/


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Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
By GAUTAM NAIK
In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

Based on previously limited fossil evidence, one big debate had been whether the tarsidae or adapidae group gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans. The latest discovery bolsters the less common position that our ancient ape-like ancestor was an adapid, the believed precursor of lemurs.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html

I don't know where everyone falls on the whole missing link thing but I know this much is true, the Lord works in mysterious ways. Also if my new nephew is any indication, I'm a monkey's Uncle.

Link to the melodramatic documentary film trailer...
http://www.revealingthelink.com/more-about-ida/the-film
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2009, 02:15:12 PM »
mAYBE IT IS NOT, reseaech, additional fossils and time will tell. Remember, Racoons have opposable thumbs, and they are not our ancestors or cousins.
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2009, 03:15:23 PM »
Ida?....Idabriggs,..... is dat U?
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2009, 03:21:01 PM »
Who'da thunk that the original DUmpmonkey could be found 47 million years later.

Was there even Cheetos back then?  Did they celebrate Fitzmas like they do in the modern world?

Wow.  Just wow.   :mental:
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2009, 03:32:10 PM »
Quote from: Peter3_1 on May 19, 2009, 02:15:12 PM
mAYBE IT IS NOT, reseaech, additional fossils and time will tell. Remember, Racoons have opposable thumbs, and they are not our ancestors or cousins.

Um, no. I won't do it. There is an easy racist joke in there, but I'll leave that to the DUmpmonkies.
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2009, 05:37:10 PM »
Are you sure that's not an aborted ancestor of San Fran Nan? Sure does look like her!
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2009, 05:53:23 PM »
Quote from: happy1ga on May 19, 2009, 05:37:10 PM
Are you sure that's not an aborted ancestor of San Fran Nan? Sure does look like her!

I watched some of the video's at the link. Ida had fingernails. Pelosi has real claws! It would seem, that Darwin is not just unproven in this case but that in fact he had his whole theory bass ackwards. Nancy is proof of devolution.

(sry, had to be said)  :p
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2009, 06:25:29 AM »
So this is supposed to be an early monkey right?


Isn't the missing link supposed to be the transitional creature between Monkey & Human? If so just how the heck does this thing qualify? An early primate is an early primate not an early homosapien.
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2009, 06:27:38 AM »
I also heard some things they are not telling you about the find like all the other fossils that where found all around it.
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2009, 07:39:19 AM »
Quote from: happy1ga on May 19, 2009, 05:37:10 PM
Are you sure that's not an aborted ancestor of San Fran Nan? Sure does look like her!
Yes, it does resemble a lizard.   :-)
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2009, 07:39:56 AM »
Quote from: ROCKURWORLD on May 21, 2009, 06:27:38 AM
I also heard some things they are not telling you about the find like all the other fossils that where found all around it.
...the ones with "Made in China" stickers on the back?
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Re: Ida, "the missing link"
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2009, 10:41:27 AM »
Quote from: Randy on May 21, 2009, 06:25:29 AM
So this is supposed to be an early monkey right?


Isn't the missing link supposed to be the transitional creature between Monkey & Human? If so just how the heck does this thing qualify? An early primate is an early primate not an early homosapien.

Not really, the idea is that monkeys and humans are descended from a common ancestor, not that humans are descended from monkeys.  The whole "Man is descended from the apes" is the tabloid newspaper version of the real theory.  And monkeys aren't apes anyway.
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