Sentences with phrase «fossils as ape»

View the table on the skull comparison page, which demonstrates that creationists actually find it not «easy», but horribly difficult to classify fossils as ape or human.

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If you committed one of the atheistic mortal sins, like believing a proposition without proof, Galapagor, the man - ape overseer of the Atheist Underworld, may leave your essence as a trilobite deep in the fossil layer.

works both ways bro I can't count the number of times I've had scripture quoted at me as if it would convert me or the number of times people have said inane things like «why are there still apes if we evolved from them» or any BS about missing links or transitional fossils.

To establish the fossil's identity, the researchers compared a 3 - D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present - day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

But fossils that old and older look either ape or protohuman, so some paleontologists argue for a split as far back as 7 million years ago.

This 11.6 - million - year - old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its discoverers, represents the first evidence that present - day African apes descended from a relatively small, somewhat gibbonlike common ancestor — not large - bodied African primates as previously thought, scientists report in the Oct. 30 Science.

Together with his colleagues from the Senckenberg Research Institute, Prof. Dr. Friedmann Schrenk and PD Dr. Ottmar Kullmer, as well as other international scientists, the biogeologist from Tübingen examined the fossil giant ape's tooth enamel in order to make inferences on its diet and to define potential factors for its extinction.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

Recent humans and their fossil relatives are classified as having thick molar enamel, one of very few dental traits that distinguish hominins from living African apes.

Moreover, as humans and apes differ in loading of the foot, this region is relevant to questions concerning arboreal locomotion and bipedality in the hominoid fossil record.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

Curiously, as a debating tactic to discredit other hominid fossils, creationists often accept 1470 as human, even though many of them reject larger - brained erectus specimens as apes.

However Tobias (1987) shows that other habilis fossils such as OH 7, OH 13, OH 16 and OH 24 (which creationists consider apes) all share many advanced features with ER 1470.

After the Piltdown fraud was exposed, the australopithecines came into favour as a transitional form linking an ape - like common - ancestor to human beings, and this link was further strengthened by later finds of both erectus and australopithecine fossils, mainly in East and South.

In 1894 Dubois published a description of his fossils, naming them Pithecanthropus erectus, describing it as neither ape nor human, but something intermediate.

Bao Bao share the same sprite as Cave Ape and the Fossil Ape.