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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest fossil unearthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so far.

The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered in northeastern Ethiopia helps scientists fill in the gaps of how human ancestors made the giant leap from one species to another.

That's because the newest fossil, the species Australopithecus anamensis, was found in the region of the Middle Awash -- where seven other human-like species spanning nearly 6 million years and three major phases of human development were previously discovered.

"We just found the chain of evolution, the continuity through time," study co-author and Ethiopian anthropologist Berhane Asfaw said in a phone interview from Addis Ababa. "One form evolved to another. This is evidence of evolution in one place through time."


Here you go! (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/12/fossil.evolution.ap/index.html)

Another illustration of the fact that creationist science-deniers are exactly on par with UFO nuts and other wackos and liars.

Later, on the exact same padge you linked, it stands:
The species anamensis is not new, but its location is what helps explain the shift from one early phase of human-like development to the next, scientists say. All eight species were within an easy day's walk of each other.
The title feels misleading. I thought a new species was discovered, and not of a new individual ancestor. *sigh*

It's not evidence for evolution, it's from just after the earth was created a few thousand years ago when a human deformed by vitamin D deficiency with a coincidentaly monkey-like skull died! :p

It's not evidence for evolution, it's from just after the earth was created a few thousand years ago when a human deformed by vitamin D deficiency with a coincidentaly monkey-like skull died! :p

Doubt it! XD Never is the case!

It's not evidence for evolution, it's from just after the earth was created a few thousand years ago when a human deformed by vitamin D deficiency with a coincidentaly monkey-like skull died! :p
No. It had a vitamin Jesus deficiency.

Praise Jesus!

Later, on the exact same padge you linked, it stands:

The title feels misleading. I thought a new species was discovered, and not of a new individual ancestor. *sigh*

Am I going crazy? Seriously, I just read that, and looked back a second later - and it had changed.

And I tried to change the title but it didn't seem to work. :confused:

And I tried to change the title but it didn't seem to work. :confused:

I don't think you can

And I tried to change the title but it didn't seem to work. :confused:
What do you want it changed to?

What do you want it changed to?
More evolution news. New prehuman fossil found.
:)

What do you want it changed to?
Thankie.
More evolution news. New prehuman fossil found.
Thankie.
My reading skills are no longer challenged.

More evolution news. New prehuman fossil found.
:)
I love this double-click thingy. :D

I love this double-click thingy. :D
Grassy ass.:)

Don't be silly, God put it there to test our faith.

I find it regrettable that we live in a world where this sort of discovery is more celebrated as a means to counter an ignorance fueled ideology than as a scientific breakthrough in and of itself. Not that I think we shouldn’t rub it in the faces of creationist buffoons. It is completely necessary to do so. I just wish that it wasn’t.

Don't be silly, God put it there to test our faith.

NO NO NO!

Satan put it there to trick us!

NO NO NO!

Satan put it there to trick us!
Well, actually, it was me...but I'm modest and that, so I let God/Satan take the credit.