The Human-Chimp Split: A Closer Look at the Fossil Record

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/12/Todd_Disotell_A_New_Tale_of_the_Primate_Split

Todd Disotell, a professor of anthropology at NYU, examines the human-chimp split in relation to bipedal fossils that date back to the time period during which many scientists believe the evolutionary leap occurred.

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Recent advances in molecular genetics are radically changing ideas about the appearance of primates and the subsequent branching off of the major lineages. Previously, it was thought primates first appeared some 65 million years ago; now experts are proposing dates as far back as 80-90 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

The hazy image of our lineage provided by the fossil record is now coming into focus thanks to new molecular analytical techniques; researchers now have whole genome sequences representing at least one member of each major lineages and whole mitochondrial lineages of nearly every genus in the order Primates. - California Academy of Sciences

Dr. Todd Disotell is a professor of anthropology at New York University. His research interests are centered upon the theme of primate and human evolution, at all levels from the populational to the supra-ordinal. Those interests encompass primate evolution, molecular evolution, mammalian evolution, molecular systematics, phylogenetic analysis, population genetics, phylogeography, computer modeling, human evolution, human variation, and the history of anthropology. Dr. Disotell received his Ph.D. and Masters degrees from Harvard University, and his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

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[Entropy56]

Darwinists are liars and don't know shit.

[Klymenos12]

Only reasonable explanation is ancient aliens

[dudev]

@ElProximo

Maybe I should believe that an invisible super-being created the universe by waving his magic penis. People run to religion to sooth their fears. But thanks for your moronic rambling comment. I'll email it to all my friends for a good laugh.

[dudev]

@ElProximo

It's called fitting the explanation to the facts, and not the other way round. It's called learning. When did biologists ever claim to know the absolute truth? Never, you wanker. It's religion that alters the facts to fit the story.

[Spetsop]

@CarmineFragione

Do this, go to Google, type in "Mendel's Law" or "Mendelian inheritance" and learn a thing or two... before you make a fool out of yourself... AGAIN!

[Spetsop]

@CarmineFragione

If there is SO much proof out there in medical journals (or any other journal for that matter), why can't you give me at least ONE link to it?

From what you've posted here so far, I can tell with 100% certainty that you have AT MOST a level of high school understanding of science, if that! "Why don't you ask your teacher at school, if you have attended any" don't make me laugh LOL I've done more than just high school, and more than just 4 years of biology in university!

[Spetsop]

@CarmineFragione

OMFG, I've yet to meet a more uneducated idiot than you! "Asking me to point one out is like asking me to educate you from Kindergarten to a four year college degree." That's b/c you know full well that medical journals deal with medical topics... NOT evolution topics! Sure, "desire to learn"... look in the mirror first and say that to yourself before making bogus assumptions based on poor understanding of scientific principles and terms!

[CarmineFragione]

Living cells were originally built up in Abiogenesis, not by Evolution . Then all living cells have a time table of degradation, where the species will wear out it's DNA and become Extinct. Extinctions and spontaneous generations of new species, is a prediction not based on Evolution but on Abiogenesis, the true reality about how life forms it's cellular membranes and consumes genetic materials out of the oceans to construct a genome fulfilled living cell. Evolution is an Illusion.

[CarmineFragione]

@Spetsop  Almost every medical journal deals with diseases of the body, in which genetic defects are carried by inherited traits. Asking me to point one out is like asking me to educate you from Kindergarten to a four year college degree. Why don't you ask your teacher at school, if you have attended any, if Mendel's Law concerning genetic history of diseases is about evolution or if it is about degradation of the Genome of any existing living cell. First you must desire to learn.

[Spetsop]

@CarmineFragione

Point me to at least ONE medical journal where this "proof" was published!

ALL the evidence for evolution held up under scrutiny ever since the theory was proposed! You can't show me anything on the contrary... and your poor understanding of scientific concepts and terms doesn't count! Mendel's laws is only the tip of the iceberg in genetics, you really have to expand your scientific understanding beyond that which is taught at high school level... but start there first!