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No namewrote:
There is an egregious error in the caption of a picture of Otzi the ice man on the MSN Wildlife Archive. Otzi is a normal modern human being. The only thing really special about him is he happens to be the oldest naturally *mummified* human body found so far and curiously he appears to have been killed by another human. He's not any kind of "missing link" at all. A "Missing Link" would have to actually be an intermediate species that lived between 200 thousand and 5 million years ago -- the former being a conservative estimate of the approximate age of Homo Sapiens and the latter being the approximate age of our most recent common ancestor with extant modern non-human apes. For a common ancestor with modern monkeys you'd have to look back at least 20 million years. Things that old are only preserved as fossilized bones.
Please correct this. http://environment.uk.msn.com/wildlife/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=11475705&imageindex=1
Apr. 23
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Antoniowrote:
4/8/09 Antonio was here
Apr. 8
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