September 18, 2007

Smirking chimplike creature

Article has Maru giggling like schoolgirl

Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches.
Bonus: story contains the phrase "knuckle-dragging."

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Anonymous said...

"The two species lived near each other, but probably did not interact, each having its own "ecological niche," Spoor said. Homo habilis was likely more vegetarian while Homo erectus ate some meat, he said. Like chimps and apes, "they'd just avoid each other, they don't feel comfortable in each other's company," he said."

And after many thousands of years and more evolution, that trait evolved into the creature's desire to KILL ONE ANOTHER, threatening their own extinction.

huh? don'tcha think?

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