At 10/15/2009 12:25:24 PM, Volkov wrote:
At 10/15/2009 12:15:14 PM, comoncents wrote:
me too... it was pretty cool...
we did not come from chimps... that seems huge.
You're right, we didn't come from chimpanzees... we came from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees. That has been the standard idea for many, many years now.
support beliefs that humans and chimpanzees evolved separately from a common ancestor.
"This is not an ordinary fossil. It's not a chimp. It's not a human. It shows us what we used to be," said project co-director Tim White, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Researchers are still trying to pinpoint when the two lineages -- chimps and humans -- split from their common ancestor.
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