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Posted By: Mike Kremer Oldest Primate Ever Found - 06/09/13 03:48 AM
The Oldest Primate Skeleton found in China ten years ago,
has just been announced, (after 8 years of research) to be the oldest ancestor of Monkeys, Apes and Man, yet discovered.

Found in a lake bed in China disputes the conventional 'Out of Africa' belief.
Just a tiny creature with large feet and big hands, it hunted for insects by day, living in the trees.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/06/06/...oChannel=118065

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jun/05/earliest-known-primate-archicebus-achilles



Posted By: Bill Re: Oldest Primate Ever Found - 06/09/13 05:20 PM
Originally Posted By: Mike Kremer

Found in a lake bed in China disputes the conventional 'Out of Africa' belief.

Well, I'm not sure that this really is very much contrary to OOA. After all the split between apes and hominids seems to have occurred about 7 million years ago, in Africa. An ancestor 55 million years old leaves plenty of time for the intermediate ancestors to move around all over the place. Some primates are natives of South America. That didn't happen in the last 7 million years.

Humans still came OOA.

Bill Gill
Posted By: paul Re: Oldest Primate Ever Found - 06/10/13 03:20 AM
Lets consider the following proof that monkeys could have
domesticated wild animals ( clever beast ) and traveled the
needed distances in the given time period.



first travel on land would have been required.
monkeys could have easily fit onto the tiny horses of
the day only 30 cm !!

but lets consider the facts for a moment such as fact #1

clearly dog domestication is not a recent phenomenon.

so the tiny 55 million year old monkeys domesticated dogs as they were just the right size and being the right size causes fact#1 to be a fact.




next he would have needed a boat to get to all the various
land masses , no worries.

he just robs a boat from a few of the humans around who
mistakenly lend him a AK47



there , clear proof delivered in a scientific manner that
these 55 million year old monkeys were descendants from humans after all.

just like all the other primates.

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