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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
URL: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-vertebrates-earth-arose-shallow-coastal-waters
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We evolved from Baywatch! The cradle of vertebrate evolution was limited to a zone of shallow coastal waters, no more than 60 meters deep. In those waters, fish — the first vertebrates — appeared roughly 480 million years ago, a study finds. For nearly 100 million years, those creatures rarely strayed from that habitat, where they diversified into a dizzying array of new forms, scientists report in the Oct. 26 Science. The study resolves a long-standing mystery about where our earliest backboned ancestors arose. Scientists have long debated whether the animals appeared first in the shallows or the deep, or in fresh or salty water. “The main problem is that the fossil record [of vertebrates] is absolutely terrible for the first 50 million to 100 million years of their existence,” says paleobiologist Lauren Sallan of the University of Pennsylvania. “And when [there are] fossils, they’re in tiny pieces. It’s hard to tell what exactly’s going on.” So Sallan and her colleagues amassed 2,827 fossils of jawed and jawless fishes that lived between 480 million and 360 million years ago. To that database, the team added information on the environments that the creatures lived in — such as shallow coastal water, freshwater or the deeper ocean — based on both the geology of the rocks the fossils were found in and the invertebrate fossils also found in the rocks. Then, the researchers used mathematical calculations to predict the habitats of the most ancient vertebrates, filling in those gaps on the fish family tree. Rather than living in rivers or lakes or the deeper ocean waters around coral reefs, the first vertebrates stuck to a nearshore ocean environment, Sallan and colleagues found. The creatures stayed in the shallows for about 100 million years, acquiring adaptations before eventually occupying different environmental niches, the researchers say. Some fish gained streamlined, graceful bodies good for fast swimming in deeper waters. Others had stronger, more armored bodies and stayed close to shore or moved into rivers or lakes.  Catalina Pimiento, a paleobiologist at Swansea University in Wales who wrote a commentary on the study in the same issue of Science, says the team’s results are “so robust.” And the find makes a lot of sense. “It’s just well- known that these coastal habitats [have supported] biodiversity,” she says, because such locations tend to offer both abundant food and shelter. Ancient vertebrates’ diversification within those shallow waters may have been helped along by the rise of land plants during the Devonian Period, 419 million to 359 million years ago, and the subsequent increase in organic matter carried by rivers to the ocean (SN: 3/31/18, p. 9). That resulting bonanza of food, particularly floating food, may have helped to slowly give rise to more swimmers in addition to creatures already dwelling on the seafloor (SN Online: 7/17/18). Other recent research has also identified shallow coastal waters as a cradle of diversity, finding that about 100 million years after the first vertebrates appeared, the earliest four-footed animals arose in salty estuaries (SN Online: 5/30/18.) The importance of such biodiversity hot spots makes it particularly worrisome that they also tend to be most threatened by human activities in modern times, Pimiento says. “These are our origins, and they’re the areas we’re degrading the most.” |
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From: Steven, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
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If you think your grandad was a Trilobite Well that's just a crock of Darwin Shite Don't let Charles Darwin make a monkey out of you ! Once I saw a Fruit Fly evolve into Tiger but then I quit smokin that stuff. |
6671
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
URL: https://www.amazon.com/Next-Kin-My-Conversations-Chimpanzees/dp/0380728222
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Read this fascinating book and you might learn something about our nearest relatives. For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given him a profound appreciation of what they can teach us about ourselves. It has also made Fouts an outspoken opponent of biomedical experimentation on chimpanzees. A voyage of scientific discovery and interspecies communication, this is a stirring tale of friendship, courage, and compassion that will change forever the way we view our biological--and spritual--next of kin. |
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From: Steven, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
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Maybe we should not be so gullible to accept all of the curriculum of ignorance. |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
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Have you tried channeling chimpanzees of yore gone before or sought the spiritual guidance of the Mayan monkey gods, etc. ? It only makes sense from a spiritual standpoint this might be your next step in contacting your deceased grandmas and maybe even finding their fossils. |
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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
URL: Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia
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Are you ashamed or embarrassed by your next of kin - it's not like like they come along to weddings and funerals and get drunk! Here's a recent discovery of possibly our distant great-granddaddy, and closer to home than previously thought. |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
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From: Steven, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
| And on the 8th day the Lord made monkeys to confuse learned men like Darwin and Dawkins and anyone unfortunate enough to believe them. |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
lol
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
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Evolution is a conspiracy theory from the cult of Darwin. |
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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
URL: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/
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At November 12, 2018 at 18:56:50, Eve wrote: "Evolution is a conspiracy theory from the cult of Darwin."  Take pride in your inner Neanderthal and other deep time ancestors ;-) |
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6651
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
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Sorry, no kin to Walt Disney here. |
6652
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
URL: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives
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So you don't think we're in anyway related to chimps or bonobos as told by our DNA. |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
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Like it or not, we've all got a lot in common with pigs. We're omnivorous mammals that gain weight easily and are susceptible to the flu for starters. The sheer fact that pigs and humans are mammals means that we share some genes. But it is simplistic to put an actual figure on the amount of genetic material we have in common. Making broad comparisons by saying … 98 per cent of [human] genes are similar to a chimpanzee or whatever else … tend to be a little bit misleading. The amount of genetic material we share with other species depends upon what you compare. All living organisms have genetic information encoded in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), divided into units called genes. Information is transferred from the genes via a chemical called ribonucleic acid (RNA). Some RNA is translated into chains of amino-acid that make up proteins, the building blocks of every living cell. Scientists have discovered about 20,000 mammalian genes that encode proteins with similar basic functions. So if you compare the protein-encoding portion of our DNA we have a lot in common with a lot of mammals. Mammals have most of the same genes for similar biochemical and physiological functions. If you look at the details of the genes … there'll be differences between them, but they'll still be doing the same kind of function. ------------------------------------- - Pigs in factory farming are gassed like the Jews were by Nazi's during the Holocaust.... Maybe that is where the concept for slaughtering them by gas chambers has it's roots. DEADLY BELIEFS It is important to realize that the theory of evolution is not simply that man evolved from apes, but that man evolved from everything. According to Darwin, all living creatures have a common origin. Men, monkeys and bananas share the same ancestry. As such, when a man eats a banana he is engaging in a kind of cannibalism, consuming an ancestral version of his former self. Yet he consumes the banana so that he might survive. He feels no guilt about using the banana for his own benefit. He will not phone the authorities and report that a crime has been committed, in that he killed the banana and ate it. Neither will he feel guilt over killing a cockroach he finds in his kitchen cupboard. The cockroach by its very presence imposes upon the atmosphere he desires to create for himself. Yet the cockroach, like the banana, is his ancient ancestor. So, why does he feel no guilt in destroying the cockroach? Or the rat? Or the termite – all of which threaten the “perfect” environment he seeks to establish? The full title of Darwin’s theory provides us with a clue: Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Man, as the highest link in the Darwinian food chain, claims the right to make use of, kill, or destroy lower life forms for the benefit of his own existence. Man determines which life forms are beneath him, and then uses them for his benefit. Horses and donkeys may be subject to labor on man’s behalf; cattle and fish may be killed and eaten for his appetite; while rats and cockroaches can be destroyed for his convenience. Once these principles are understood, a person can begin to understand how the evolutionist, Adolf Hitler could say: “I have the right to exterminate millions of people that multiply like so many vermin upon the earth.” – Adolf Hitler Hitler’s concept of the Aryan (exalted or noble) race represented the highest point of the evolutionary pyramid, and all races that fell beneath the Aryan standard were fair game for removal (i.e., extermination). This is why Hitler equated Jews with rats and termites. In fact, the Zyklon-B gas used to murder Jews in the showers of Auschwitz was originally a pesticide developed to kill insects. This is also why the Nazis used Jewish skin, bones and teeth to make lamp shades and brush handles – because killing a Jew was deemed no different than killing a cow, cutting down a tree, or picking cotton from a field – according to Darwinian philosophy. Darwin’s “struggle” for life seems to have been the theme of Hitler’s famous work – Mein Kampf (i.e. My Struggle). His struggle was the preservation of the Aryan race, the favored race according to Hitler. Some people coming out of Communist countries tell of how the Communists used evolution in schools to remove the consciousness of God from the minds of the people. Evolution removes the authority of God, and makes man his own god – accountable to no one but himself. In Communist countries, Marxist Atheism is the rule and the state is the supreme authority. Yet according to The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (first published in 1997), some 94 million people were mass murdered in the 20th century by this atheist form of government. That’s more than all the people killed through the Crusades and the Inquisitions combined. Keep that in mind the next time your atheist friend tells you about the “evils” of religion in government. Also remember that evolution is the cornerstone of both atheism and the occult. --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
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correction: Most human animals are omnivorous mammals...(Not all).... Plant based diet mammalian here ^^^... woot woot! |
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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Chimps Eat Baby Monkey Brains First—A Clue to Human Evolution
URL: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/chimpanzees-monkeys-brains-animals-predators/
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"nature, red in tooth and claw," A group of chimpanzees travels through the woodlands of Gombe National Park, Tanzania, where Jane Goodall first began studying their kind back in 1960. They come upon red colobus monkeys. Chimps survey their prey. A hunt begins. Chaos ensues as monkeys fall from trees to the screams of chimps as they make their kill—all of it caught on video. Ian Gilby, an anthropologist at Arizona State University and leader of a new study on the subject, originally filmed members of the habituated Kasekela chimp community in Gombe to learn more about how they share meat. Reviewing the videos later, he noticed that chimps eat subadult prey— infants, juveniles, and adolescents—heads first. Chimps consuming adult prey show less of a pattern, he found. This left him with a little-studied question that's relevant to how humans evolved: Why would the apes prefer to eat a particular body part first? Gilby thinks it has to do with nutrition. “We tend to just say meat is meat, but we know that the nutrient composition varies," says Gilby, whose study appeared recently in the International Journal of Primatology. "The whole carcass is valuable, but the brain is especially valuable." Brains are high in fat and a source of long-chain fatty acids, which aid in neurological development. As for Paranthropus boisei - check if you see any around... https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/the-history-of-our-tribe- hominini/chapter/paranthropus-boisei/ |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Chimps Eat Baby Monkey Brains First—A Clue to Human Evolution
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lame-o, feeble, etc. sorry, can't even give you a nice try Hitler. |
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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Chimps Eat Baby Monkey Brains First—A Clue to Human Evolution
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At November 18, 2018 at 15:09:32, Eve wrote: lame-o, feeble, etc. sorry, can't even give you a nice try Hitler. oh dear Eve ad hominem name calling is the best you've got - grow up please. Does what our nearest living relatives are capable of shock you? Do you believe all animals are cute and need of your protection then nature in the raw has other ideas - we shared a common ancestor with Chimps only 7 million years ago hence why we are so closely related as shown by our DNA. If you can't rationally argue back with evidence and can only resort to name calling - just admit that your biblical belief's inhibit your knowledge of the world. Heck my moggy cat and humans are seperated by 70 million years of evolution from a shrew like common ancestor Maelestes gobiensis I find that amazing and enlightening rather than something to bury my head in a bible to hide from and rely on ready made supernatural explanations for the diversity of life. |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Chimps Eat Baby Monkey Brains First—A Clue to Human Evolution
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still lame-o Hitler speak brainwashing you keep on denying it but it's the thing you hate you can't see in yourself. |
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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: First vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters
| now now...there is a middle ground... |
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