3dGameMan
05-03-2005, 08:27 AM
Human evolution at the crossroads: ~source (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7103668/)
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By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
Updated: 6:00 p.m. ET May 2, 2005
Scientists are fond of running the evolutionary clock backward, using DNA analysis and the fossil record to figure out when our ancestors stood erect and split off from the rest of the primate evolutionary tree.
But the clock is running forward as well. So where are humans headed?
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says it's the question he's most often asked, and "a question that any prudent evolutionist will evade." But the question is being raised even more frequently as researchers study our past and contemplate our future.
Paleontologists say that anatomically modern humans may have at one time shared the Earth with as many as three other closely related types — Neanderthals, Homo erectus and the dwarf hominids whose remains were discovered last year in Indonesia...
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/NEWS/Projects/Evolution/Hmed_Futureman.jpg
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
Updated: 6:00 p.m. ET May 2, 2005
Scientists are fond of running the evolutionary clock backward, using DNA analysis and the fossil record to figure out when our ancestors stood erect and split off from the rest of the primate evolutionary tree.
But the clock is running forward as well. So where are humans headed?
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says it's the question he's most often asked, and "a question that any prudent evolutionist will evade." But the question is being raised even more frequently as researchers study our past and contemplate our future.
Paleontologists say that anatomically modern humans may have at one time shared the Earth with as many as three other closely related types — Neanderthals, Homo erectus and the dwarf hominids whose remains were discovered last year in Indonesia...