Discovering Ardi – Cleaning the Bones – 10/11 @ 9pm E/P on Discovery
The two-hour special premieres this Sunday, October 11th @ 9pm E/P on Discovery.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html?smid=YTDSC-YTD-SHP
Find out how scientists managed to safely free the fragile fossils from the sediment surrounding them.
Following publication in the journal Science on the discovery and study of a 4.4 million-year-old female partial skeleton nicknamed “Ardi,” Discovery Channel will present a world premiere special, DISCOVERING ARDI, Sunday October 11 at 9 PM (ET/PT) documenting the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to this landmark publication of the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils.
UNDERSTANDING ARDI, a one-hour special produced in collaboration with CBS News will air at 11 PM (ET/PT) immediately following DISCOVERING ARDI. The special is moderated by former CBS and CNN anchor Paula Zahn and includes research team members Dr. Tim White, Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Dr. Giday WoldeGabriel, Dr. Owen Lovejoy, and science journalist Ann Gibbons
The scientific investigation began in the Ethiopian desert 17 years ago, and now opens a new chapter on human evolution, revealing the first evolutionary steps our ancestors took after we diverged from a common ancestor we once shared with living chimpanzees. “Ardi’s” centerpiece skeleton, the other hominids she lived with, and the rocks, soils, plants and animals that made up her world were analyzed in laboratories around the world, and the scientists have now published their findings in the prestigious journal Science.
“Ardi” is now the oldest skeleton from our (hominid) branch of the primate family tree. These Ethiopian discoveries reveal an early grade of human evolution in Africa that predated the famous Australopithecus nicknamed “Lucy.” Ardipithecus was a woodland creature with a small brain, long arms, and short legs. The pelvis and feet show a primitive form of two-legged walking on the ground, but Ardipithecus was also a capable tree climber, with long fingers and big toes that allowed their feet to grasp like an ape’s. The discoveries answer old questions about how hominids became bipedal.
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Thermodynamics was …
Thermodynamics was Kent Hovind’s catch-term. But his is getting flat setting on a concrete bench in a federal prison as we speak.
k so this is what i …
k so this is what i have to say have you ever heard of the second law of Thermodynamics the big band is proving itself wrong so so true evolution fail
have you ever heard …
have you ever heard the phrase prophesies being full filled your the one scared of being wrong the end times are coming so you better believe before hand the chances that the world started with a big bang is like what one in a trillion and protein synthesis to happen from chance this is like winning thousands of lottery’s in a row how can you say there is no god
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Sorry fordatude, youre no longer worth wasting key strokes over.
when you look at …
when you look at all the actual facts concerning evolution it just doesn’t add up , its easy to say that evolution is happening today when i cant see it because its to small to detect , and what is it with you and god , you seem to really hate him ….
Attempting to …
Attempting to respond to your questions may be a waste of resource, fordatude.
i dont know why i …
i dont know why i didnt see it before , its so simple a caveman can do it …
Even if all the …
Even if all the bones were destroyed, somehow, in The Great Flood – what happened to all the tools humans used prior to God’s “great judgment?” Tools – stone or metal – are extremely tough. How is it NONE have every been found with dinosaur remains? Hello? Mr. Logic calling. Faith is one thing – Stupidity quite another.
There would be a …
There would be a layer of bones if there was a global flood, but there wasn’t. Fossils are rare and you can only explore whatever age of rock is showing. ie. you need to look in 4 million year old rocks to find 4 million year old fossils.
fordatude, good …
fordatude, good question. The distance in time between Lucy and Ardi is 100,000 generations. Can you put your head around that number? Evolution is happening every day – it’s just that, sometimes, the increments are too small to detect. Are you familiar with the term “geologic time scale?” You actually believe Nature is concerned for your place within it? That value system comes from supposedly being created in His image, which, in this case at least, is very hairy.
darwinsfriend , i …
darwinsfriend , i have to ask you a question so try to get your head out of the dirt for just a minute ok , if evolution is so real why then isn’t still happening today , why did evolution stop …
Hmm. Cool, simple …
Hmm. Cool, simple logic would say..hey..there should be tons of these fossils…all over..no? Not only that but there would be many other intermediate species..wouldnt there? Where are they?
fordatude: come on …
fordatude: come on man , no can say that for sure …
Yeah, yeah they can.
Youre just frightened and disappointed that all the fairy tales Mommy and Daddy told you was just propaganda.
These scientists if you bother to read and research ran everything they were claiming in front of their peers, for over a decade.
Religion has the faith. We have the bones.
Next!
i’ve seen these so …
i’ve seen these so call scientist walking off the shores of africa and stumble across so bones and right away say these bines are 6 to 7 million old , come on man , no can say that for sure …
First then God…Or …
First then God…Or what…he Not a human…
Id be frightened …
Id be frightened too, if raised by a religious background. All that effort of building cathedrals, priests taking advantage of children-condemning all of those terrorized souls to Hell. I’d throw up a blanket of mumbo-jumbo in an effort to protect the status quo just like the Pope when confronted with the fact that the Earth wasnt the center of the solar system. A bunch of beautifully crafted myths will now be reduced to silly fairy tales. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Darwin made NO …
Darwin made NO deathbed conversion.
He became an atheist after the death of his daughter from TB and remained so for the rest of his life.
Darwin’s death bed …
Darwin’s death bed confession is SO true.
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Luke30k
Lying for …
Luke30k
Lying for Jesus again I see. That complete bullshit. Darwin never ever recanted anything on his death bed.
You know, Darwin …
You know, Darwin could have been a liar, a mass murder, a secretly religious man and so on. He could have invented his theory as a purposeful deception. An you know what? It would still be true. He wasn’t a prophet so his personality or intent doesn’t matter at all. It’s all about his ideas. Ideas that have been proven to be true by evidence. Ideas that have been confirmed with every new discovery like the DNA and so on. If there’s a better theory, people would be glad to prove him wrong.
Luke30k,
Really …
Luke30k,
Really? I never heard Darwin went crazy before he died — maybe he was just trying to soothe a family member…
on Darwins death …
on Darwins death bed he said that the whole thing about evolution was false, one of the bones was a wild pig bone.
Is there anything …
Is there anything Mike rowe doesn’t narrarate?
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