New Fossil of Early Hominid Precursor

sdr writes: "For decades scientists have worked to connect the dots between dozens of fossil discoveries in East and southern Africa in hopes of constructing an accurate picture of human origins. Now, a new find in western Central Africa suggests the picture may be radically different than widely assumed. Check National Geographic for the story."

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[damiangerous]

Check the original [slashdot.org] before posting to this one.

Dupe!

[Wrexen]

Not to be confused with the same thing Here [slashdot.org]

In other news

[legLess]

In other news, researchers at MIT are now looking at ways to etch binary data on the inside of human skulls, claiming that human skull bone is a more reliable and longer-lived storage medium [slashdot.org] than most others available.

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[JabberWokky]

Stuff the skull with chicken feathers, and you have the makings of a Voodoo supercomputer!

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Evan

Not big news?

[JPriest]

Well after the second try at it, still didn't make the front page. Silly me, I thought this was interesting. Anyway since there also seems to be a lack of discussion on this topic I thought I would point out that fark [fark.com] also covered the story, and people actually commented on it there if you are curious what they had to say on it. It took a while to read through the 300 or so comments but there were some very good points brought up on it. The arguments there also seemed to be largely dominated by the Evolutionists. The creationists seem to be bringing less and less to the table these days.