From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9547 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2010 22:45:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 9538 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Apr 2010 22:45:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:45:07 +0000 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18557EA062 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:45:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:45:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (user-0c6sbd2.cable.mindspring.com [24.110.45.162]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADBA74BF53; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:45:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BBE5C6C.8080500@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:45:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Talk Amongst Yourselves Subject: Re: Missing link found. References: <4BBE50D4.3080805@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BBE50D4.3080805@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-q2/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On 4/8/2010 5:55 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > > From the department of we-told-you-so: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8609192.stm > > Everyone who didn't believe it existed: Now shut up. Don't oversell it. It's two fossils, that a substantial fraction of scientists (presumably not religiously motivated) believe are actually of g. homo, not australopithecine, extraction. The only thing that might make them "missing link" material is the reduced cranial capacity -- everything else is pure g. homo material. However, Homo floresiensis (the "Hobbit") is g. homo, but has even smaller cranial capacity. So...maybe you're right, but the ground under your feet isn't firm enough to start a round of "Shut up, he explained". -- Chuck