Jawdropping: Oldest human fossil fills in a 2.8-million-year-old gap in evolution

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Scientists working in Ethiopia say they've found the earliest known fossil on the ancestral line that led to humans. It's part of a lower jaw with several teeth, and it's about 2.8 million years old. Anthropologists say the fossil fills an important gap in the record of human evolution.

 

Although it's risky to say you've got the first or oldest of anything, Brian Villmoare, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is sure he and his team have the earliest specimen of Homo, the human genus.

 

"Oh, yeah, it definitely is," he says. "We were looking for it

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The worlds only 6,000 years old but?

 

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Those teeth look nasty.

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Shhh! You'll wake up the creationists!

[Unobscured Vision]

No you won't, they don't read Science. All of that logic, reason, observation and *gasp* evidence to prove everything (even if they are theories and hypothesis) could damage the ... *cough* ... Ecosystem of Faith. TV Preachers need jobs, and Believers pay good money. Religious Stores have plenty of materials to sell, all of which require manufacturing (also creating jobs for people).

 

It's all about money in the end.

 

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