Some old homo's skull found in the desert. (Darwin inside!)

[Suburbanelite]

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...978726,00.html

The fossils, which have been determined to be a new species, Australopithecus sediba, were initially found by Matthew Berger, the 9-year-old son of paleontologist Lee Berger of South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand (the elder Berger tried in vain to get the editors of Science to list Matthew as a co-author on the paper). The bones belong to a pre-teenage boy and a woman estimated to be in her late 20s or early 30s; the individuals died at about the same time, and before their remains had fully decomposed, they were entombed in an avalanche of sediment and nearly perfectly preserved deep in the Malapa cave north of Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Au. Sediba bones are important for their vintage — they date back to the moment about 2 million years ago, when the genus of human ancestors known as Australopithecus was just giving way to a new group called Homo, which would ultimately produce Homo sapiens, or modern humans.

I thought this was interesting. Not only the fact that the bones are two million years old, but that they were found by a nine-year-old.

[Klutz]

Inb4 god put it there.

This thread is gonna become a religion shitfest before midnight.

[Qalbert]

darwin, desert, homo, inside, skull

lol

[Feedmenow]

How many of these "links" do we have? There's been a couple news articles on potential links between man and ape which never have any follow-up.

[Kuya]

Thread title is great.

[Benevolentone]

A+ thread title, I Like!

[Howard Roark]

http://images.bluegartr.com/forum/cu...tar36771_4.gif

lol

[JigglyJam]

Lastly, Berger suggests the tantalizing possibility of testing the fossils' DNA. Although the oldest DNA that paleontologists have successfully recovered so far dates back only tens of thousands of years, Berger said at a press conference, "We have states of preservation here that are truly extraordinary." But is it even possible to retrieve 2-million-year-old DNA? It's a long shot, he said, "but we're treating it as though maybe it could be preserved."

Neat.

[Brutala]

How many of these "links" do we have? There's been a couple news articles on potential links between man and ape which never have any follow-up.

Good one. They should also go discover the supposed "links" between crabs and arthropods while they're at it, huh?