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Coyote
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Message 337 of 341 (786749)
06-26-2016 3:14 PM
Reply to: Message 336 by Emotive
06-26-2016 2:00 PM


If there is a common ancestor to Tram Law, Desmond tutu and Akira Kurosawa, has it been found? If not, should that call into question the existence of their common ancestor?
One common ancestor for those three would be the first anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens, which is dated to about 200,000 years ago. Specimens have been found.

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Message 341 of 341 (791326)
09-14-2016 12:30 PM
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06-27-2016 6:23 AM


there's no reason to doubt there's an ancestral species to modern apes
There are a number of fossils that are ancestral to modern apes, but selecting a specific one depends on how far back you want to go.
For example, there are fossils that represent the ape/monkey split dating back some 25 million years.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.

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