Comments on: A Missing Link Found? http://www.agnosticmom.com/2006/03/28/a-missing-link-found/ Raising a Healthy Family Without Religion. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:52:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: hifi http://www.agnosticmom.com/2006/03/28/a-missing-link-found/#comment-608 hifi Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:36:15 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=112#comment-608 The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032700457.html" rel="nofollow">Washington Post</a> has a nicely readable article with background information about our family tree for the layman. Also a photo of the skull. Quote: "Homo erectus left Africa about 2 million years ago and spread across Asia from Georgia in the Caucasus to China and Indonesia. It first appeared in Africa between 1 million and 2 million years ago. Between 1 million and perhaps 200,000 years ago, one or more species existed in Africa that gave rise to the earliest members of our own species Homo sapiens _ between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. Delson said the fossil found in Ethiopia "might represent a population broadly ancestral to modern humans or it might prove to be one of several side branches which died out without living descendants." The Washington Post has a nicely readable article with background information about our family tree for the layman. Also a photo of the skull.

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“Homo erectus left Africa about 2 million years ago and spread across Asia from Georgia in the Caucasus to China and Indonesia. It first appeared in Africa between 1 million and 2 million years ago.

Between 1 million and perhaps 200,000 years ago, one or more species existed in Africa that gave rise to the earliest members of our own species Homo sapiens _ between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago.

Delson said the fossil found in Ethiopia “might represent a population broadly ancestral to modern humans or it might prove to be one of several side branches which died out without living descendants.”

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