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Permalink Reply by Dag Eide on February 11, 2011 at 9:22am

Fascinating !

Does anyone have a link to a schematic overview where we can see ape/human branch of the tree of life ?

Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on February 11, 2011 at 1:30pm

Here is an article on a recent study that says human ancestors left trees between 4.2 and 3.5 million years ago.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41319336/ns/technology_and_science-scie...

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 11, 2011 at 1:57pm

Great article; thanks.

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 11, 2011 at 2:02pm

Evolutionary Trees:
http://darwiniana.org/trees.htm

I replied to this under Dag's question but it keeps coming up here. Well, I tried.

Permalink Reply by If You Shea Show on February 11, 2011 at 9:19pm

Lucy is not our oldest missing link, am I right? There is a handful of partial afro-india finds, a chinease guy with hemp, and some indo europeans? I think :search: Julian Jaymes did a butt load of research on proto-man. Prior to missing link finds such as Lucy and etc.

Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on February 12, 2011 at 3:27pm

There are older Hominids than Lucy. If you look far enough down in Joan's very informative 'Evolutionary Trees' post you will see them in a schematic that documents the evolution of Hominids from them to Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence of Hominids older than Lucy has thus far only been found in Africa.