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Sunday 4 April 2010

Re: [wanita-muslimah] Child fossil find may be man's missing link

Jadi yang bener yang mana?
Manusia keturunan Cro-Magnon atau keturunan Nabi Adam?
Atau Nabi Adam itu manusia cro-magnon?


On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:01 PM, H. M. Nur Abdurahman <
mnur.abdurrahman@yahoo.co.id> wrote:

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> From: "sunny" <ambon@tele2.se <ambon%40tele2.se>>
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> Subject: [wanita-muslimah] Child fossil find may be man's missing link
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> http://www.theage.com.au/world/child-fossil-find-may-be-mans-missing-link-20100404-rll2.html
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> Child fossil find may be man's missing link
> RICHARD GRAY, LONDON
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> April 5, 2010
> A skeleton discovered in South Africa has scientists abuzz.
>
> A ''MISSING link'' between humans and their ape-like ancestors has been
> discovered.
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> The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that
> includes humans, will be revealed when the 2-million-year-old skeleton of a
> child will be unveiled this week.
>
> Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a
> previously unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been an
> intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced
> humans, Homo habilis.
>
> Experts who have seen the skeleton say it shares characteristics with Homo
> habilis, whose emergence 2.5 million years ago is seen as a key stage in the
> evolution of our species.
>
> The discovery could help rewrite the history of human evolution by filling
> in crucial gaps in scientific knowledge.
>
> Most fossilised hominid remains are little more than scattered fragments of
> bone, so the find of an almost-complete skeleton will allow scientists to
> answer key questions about what our early ancestors looked like and when
> they began walking upright on two legs.
>
> Palaeontologists and human evolutionary experts behind the discovery have
> kept silent about the exact details of what they have uncovered, but the
> scientific community is abuzz with anticipation of the announcement of the
> find on Thursday.
>
> Professor Lee Berger, of the University of the Witwatersrand, found the
> skeleton while exploring cave systems in the Sterkfontein region of South
> Africa, near Johannesburg, an area known as ''the cradle of humanity''.
>
> The find is deemed so significant that South African President Jacob Zuma
> has visited the university to view the fossils and a media campaign with
> television documentaries is planned.
>
> Professor Phillip Tobias, an eminent human anatomist and anthropologist at
> the university who was one of three experts to first identify Homo habilis
> as a species of human in 1964, described the latest discovery as wonderful
> and exciting.
>
> He is one of the few scientists outside the research group behind the
> discovery who have seen the skeletons.
>
> ''To find a skeleton, as opposed to a couple of teeth or an arm bone, is a
> rarity. It is one thing to find a lower jaw with a couple of teeth, but it
> is another thing to find the jaw joined on to the skull, and those in turn
> uniting further down with the spinal column, pelvis and the limb bones,'' he
> said.
>
> ''It is not a single find, but several specimens representing several
> individuals.''
>
> The fossil skeleton was found along with several other partially complete
> fossils, encased in breccia sedimentary rock inside a limestone cave known
> as Malapa cave.
>
> The fossil record of early humans is notoriously patchy and scientists hope
> these remains will provide fresh clues about how our species evolved.
>
> Scientists believe a group of ape-like hominids, Australopithecus, which
> first emerged in Africa about 3.9 million years ago, gradually evolved into
> the first Homo species. About 2.5 million years ago, Homo habilis, the first
> species to be described as distinctly human, began to appear.
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> HMNA:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3023685.stm
> The latest research by Giorgio Bertorelle and his team from the University
> of Ferrara in Italy, compared genetic material from Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon
> humans and 21st-Century Europeans. The DNA from the Neanderthals and
> Cro-Magnons was taken from their bones. The genetic material was extracted
> from cell structures called mitochondria rather than the nucleus. The
> scientists found that while, unsurprisingly, modern humans show clear
> genetic signs of their Cro-Magnon ancestry, no such link between Neanderthal
> DNA and modern man DNA could be established.
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> It is thought the fossil to be unveiled this week will be identified as a
> new species that fits between Australopithecus and Homo habilis.
>
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