Is SCIENCE magazine 2 or more years behind; Re: Orrorin

From: Archimedes Plutonium (a_plutonium_at_iw.net)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:18:36 -0500

--- quoting Reuters write-up on a SCIENCE article ---

Pre-Human Walked Upright 6 Million Years
                            Ago -Study

                            Thu Sep 2, 5:55 PM ET

                            WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A chimp-sized human
ancestor walked upright 6 million years
                            ago, far earlier than anyone had been able
to show before, researchers reported on
                            Thursday.

                             Specialized X-rays called CAT scans of the
top of a fossil thighbone show clear evidence
                             that the creature walked upright, like
pre-humans, and not like apes, the researchers said.

                            Their findings, published in Friday's issue
of the journal Science, take the dawn of human
                            gait back another 3 million years from
"Lucy," the earliest known pre-human to have
                            walked on two legs.

                            "We have solid evidence of the earliest
upright posture and bipedalism securely dated to
                            six million years," said Dr. Robert
Eckhardt, a professor in the Laboratory of Comparative
                            Morphology and Mechanics at Pennsylvania
State University.

                            This older species, known scientifically as
Orrorin tugenensis, lived in what is now the
                            Kenyan Lukeino Formation.

                            The international team of researchers
studied bones dug up nearly four years ago. One
                            thighbone includes the intact head of the
left thighbone -- the ball that is inserted into the
                            hip socket joint.

                            The bones are about the same size as a
modern chimpanzee's. But they look quite
                            different.

                            The researchers ran computed tomography or
CAT scans on the bones. These
                            computer-enhanced X-rays create a
three-dimensional image.

                            They found the neck connecting the ball to
the shaft is thinner on top than it is on the
                            bottom, a sign that the creature walked on
two legs.

                            "In present day chimps and gorillas, the
thicknesses in the upper and lower parts of that
                            bone are approximately equal," Eckhardt said
in a statement.

                            "In modern humans, the bone on top is
thinner than on the bottom by a ratio of one to
                            four or more. The ratio in this fossil is
one to three."

                            Genetic evidence suggests that chimps and
human diverged from a common ancestor 7
                            million years ago.
--- end quoting ---

I had seen this information on a PBS TV program some years ago. So I was
confused as to why Reuters or SCIENCE magazine bothered to publish it
since the story is 2 years old and told better on the TV. Is it because
SCIENCE belatedly realized it was one of the finest stories of modern
anthropology and am now trying to patch their missing holes. Better late
than never?

For over a year now I have been researching and looking for the telltale
bone anatomy of Orrorin that proves Orrorin was a Stonethrower. That is
even more spectacular of a finding than Orrorin as a biped. Because if
we prove Orrorin threw rocks and stones then we are on the road to
proving that Throwing preceded bipedalism and Throwing created
bipedalism.

The creature known as Oreopithecus, who is much older than Orrorin at
about 8 to 10 million years ago, I claim was also biped and that
Throwing created the bipedalism of Oreopithecus.

So if the scientists mentioned above are willing to do some great
research, then they would assemble all the bones found of Oreopithecus
and Orrorin and attempt to prove that both Oreopithecus and Orrorin were
Throwers of rocks and stones. The dig site of both Oreopithecus and
Orrorin were so sloppily done that they removed the rocks and stones
that could have indicated Orrorin and Oreopithecus were Throwers.

That is why anatomy and medical scientists are needed to find a telltale
bone structure that proves whether a apelike creature Threw rocks and
stones and with the help of modern day chimpanzees and orangutans and
gorillas we can differentiate such Unique bone marker for Throwing.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.archimedesplutonium.com
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