What makes you, you, better yet what makes humans, humans?
Neurobiology probes the circuitry of the brain for the secrets of behaviors and thoughts that make humans human. Is there a grand creator, and if so, should there not be some spark that humans retain as a result of being part of that creator, like the DNA that we share with our parents. "High-energy physics seeks and may be on the verge of finding the so-called God particle, the Higgs boson thought to endow elementary particles with their mass. Cosmology is confounded by dark matter and dark energy, the pervasive but unidentified stuff that shapes the universe and accelerates its expansion."
Paleoanthropologys' missing mass is the unfounded fossils that record when and how our the homo(human) genus emerged.
"New findings only remind scientists that answers to so many of their questions about early Homo probably lie buried in the million-year dark age."
It is known that primitive hominids walked upright across the plains of Africa at the time of the unfounded fossils, probably members of the genus Australopithecus.(scientific name Australopithecus afarensis) You remember the Species in which Lucy came from a.k.a the missing link. Lucy was the Hominid skeleton that was discovered (40%) that showed that it was possible that Hominids like Lucy with such features not that uncommon of the features humans presently now have in a more evolved form, could be the missing link between apes and humans. Still some scientists say that she was just a "knuckle dragging ape."
Let's go back about 1.9 millions years to another Homo, Homo Habilis, or the "handy man," it had a larger brain, a more human like face teeth and stature, then those of australopithecines. The Habilis are considered to be an important place as the first of the homo genus, which presumably led to erectus and sapien, but like lucy it's still being debated. The problem is that there hasn't been enough preserved "things" to look at.
Paleoanthropologist William H. Kimbel said, "The problem is that the fossil yield has thus far been low or poorly preserved, compared to the time periods on either side of this interval." However, a succession of recent discoveries has extended evidence of hominids reaching back from three million to beyond six million years ago, close to the estimated time of the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages.
[Tim D. White of the University of California, Berkeley, one of the most experienced hunters of hominid fossils, said that his teams and several others were "pushing hard" to explore sites in Ethiopia and Kenya that may produce evidence of earlier Homo origins. Prospects are uncertain. Some prominent sites of previous hominid discoveries are underlain with lava flows and other geological barriers to digging into the deeper past.]
At present, most paleoanthropologists think a solitary upper jaw represents the likeliest candidate for a Homo from that period. In 1996 a find by Dr. Kimbel and his team was made in the Hadar badlands of Ethiopia, and get this it was actually near the site of the much earlier Lucy skeleton and on a surface with a scattering of stone tools. The 2.3-million-year-old jaw that was found was assigned to the Genus of Homo.
Dr. Kimbel remains cautious. "The Hadar jaw could represent a population of early Homo that was specifically in the ancestry of habilis," he said. "Or it could represent a stem population from which ultimately descended all of the Homo species currently known from after two million years ago."
Professor of Biological Anthropology, Alan Walker, who teaches and studies hominid anatomry at Pennsylvania State University, agreed that the jaw was apparently "the earliest direct evidence" of Homo. It shows that the individual had the short face and squared-off palate
"At a basic level, one wants to know when and where transformations occurred so one can put them into their appropriate evolutionary context," Dr. Lieberman said.
He said that that could reveal the dietary and environmental causes of species change, leading eventually to modern humans with the ambition to find their origins.
Dr. Lieberman said that he and colleagues "are relentlessly optimistic that we have all the information we need to answer our big questions, but just haven't figured out the order in which to connect the dots."
But the real problem, he added, with resignation tempering optimism, "is that the fossil record doesn't have enough dots."
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Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins
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UH OH WHAT DID THE CELEBRITIES DO TODAY!!
Don Imu's crazy ass is officially coming back on the air December 3 as apart of New York's WABC-AM
The Jonas Brothers, Disney's new ho I mean project, [what I like about them: they can somewhat sing (even if it sounds like all throat) and play instruments, but you gotta admit Disney is like a really big pimp and they do have the tendency on creating and backing new things and then showing their wrath by canceling them, unless they make them money, then they give them record deals and movie deals so fans won't be too pissed and stop watching disney, because they just canceled a great show for no FREAKIN REASON. Dude come back!, my bad] The jonas brothers are recording an album on the tour bus, while they are on the West Coast on the Miley Cyrus/ Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds Tour. Plus they are getting a concert special dvd, a movie, and a new t.v. show- J.O.N.A.S Junior Operatives Networking As Spies- the brothers play a group of government hired undercover spies, and music makers by day- hannah montana 2- they also help their secret agent dad mu thwart the evil dentist Dr. Harvey Fleischman, an evil dentist bent on taking over the world's young adults. -KND- their mother doesn't know. their youngest brother, Frankie Jonas, who is very cool by the way, has some idea as to what his brothers are really doing, and stop a crazy teenage reporter named Stella Malone(Chelsea Staub) who is doing everything she can to get the behind-the-scenes scoop on the up-and-coming band by going undercover, keeping up with school, having a social life, and most importantly, keeping the world that has their eyes on them from finding out who they really are while continuing to protect it.
Davida Williams stars as Veronica
Rachel Katz is Willie Floym
Elena Melnichenko is Sofia
Da Brat, hit somebody again, you better stop, or you are going to be doing reality tv forever, trying to pay off all those lawsuits and court costs.
Early today this morning at Jermaine Dupri's Atlanta nightclub, Studio 72, Brat hit a waitress in the face with a bottle of rum. Allegedly. the waitress was then carried to the hospital where she was apparently treated for cuts on her face. No comment was reported from Dupri or Brat.
Jacob the Jeweler- the king of bling,- the one everyone keeps saying as they hold up their chains or when they are on cribs. well he's going down the mine, or should I say up the river, for lying. Arabov pleaded guilty on Wednesday to falsifying records and giving false statements to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring, The Associated Press reports. Everyone from Kanye West to Bono, agreed to a plea deal that will have him serve up to 46 months in prison and pay a penalty of $2 million dollars, in exchange for prosecutors dropping money-laundering charges against him.(throw enough money at it, Lil kim lied had to pay a fine and went to jail, rock boy (diamonds are just shiny rocks) lied and he just paid a fine. Arabov was arrested at his New York jewelry store in June 2006 and accused of being part of a conspiracy to launder about $270 million in drug profits for the Black Mafia Family., Calvin Klein and Bruce Willis. Police are treating the death as a homicide. ...
X-Files is making a sequel
start production in Vancouver, British Columbia, in December, according to Entertainment Weekly. Creator Chris Carter is slated to direct, and TV series stalwarts David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will revive their respective roles for the project, which has been in the works since the release of "The X Files: Fight the Future" in 1998. "If we didn't do it now and the [writers'] strike was protracted, it would force the movie to come out several years from now," Carter told the magazine. "And that was too late. It was either now or never." (MTV.COM)
Last but not least, You remember Jammie, the woman sued By RiAA for 220,000 because of 24 downloaded songs, well her website has raised $16,197.84, and now she has even started selling stuff to help. Stuff like:Free Jammie" dog T-shirts ($17.49), white thong underwear ($9.99) and women's tracksuits ($49.99), as well as mugs, beer steins, teddy bears, kid's clothes, hoodies and boxer shorts
Hasta Lasagna, I got my EyEs on yA!!
P.S. i'm done now and I'm bored. I"M OUT!!
Reality show round up part 2 Alex Binder.
OH yea, hoover again. Anyone remember Alex binder? He was the guy on two-a-days who looked like josh hartnett with muscles. Well in the summer of 2006, after filming the show, he got arrested for burglary and breaking and entering into a car. However, even though he didn't play baseball his senior year, he got a partial scholarship to Bevill State Community College. He's dating Danielle who's a cheerleader at Hoover High.
-But what about Kristin!- Well don't worry about Kristin, she went on to the University of Alabama.
It has been reported they are still friends.
Hasta Lasagna, I got my EyEs on YA!!
Reality show wrap up viva la bam hoover high polygamy
Get this you know that show on MTV Two-A-Days, kind of like laguna beach but a sports version, It chronicled the lives of the Hoover High Football players and their coach because they were really good at football so good in fact that they won over 41 state championships in 19 sports in the last 10 years. Overall, Hoover has made an appearance in 21 state championship playoffs, and appeared on ESPN
well guess what?? the Head Coach (pictured above) of Hoover high, the hot head RUSH Propst, has resigned, because apparently he was allegedly bullying opposing players, fixing grades for his players, and had another life and family in another town. (If you are doing the polygamy thing, why would you go on national television!! STUPID!!) the principal who stood behind prospt in the grade changing thing, did not get his contract renewed- (nice way of saying yeah right!, YOU FIRED)As for season 3: Humidity Entertainment has declined to exercise its option for a third season. Instead, it announced that a similar program called Varsity Inc. will be filmed at West Monroe High School in West Monroe, Louisiana. The program will move to ESPN2, and will focus more on the football program and less on the private lives of its players. (NO REALLY) I know West Monroe High is like: OUR TURN BABY!!
Statement from Propst:
"I am remorseful for what I've done... I have failed you as a community; I have failed you at the board, but I feel very proud of the accomplishments we've had here, and this community has been a huge part of this football teams's success. I'm a tough person. This will be another chapter in my coaching career. I fully expect to coach again."
"I had an affair. I want that out there. I did," "The affair is wrong; I don't condone it. I made a personal decision that was wrong. And there's a child because of it. Criticize me for having an affair, be judgmental, but I won't let that child later read that he was a mistake, 'cause I'm going to do the right things."
Oh and get this Viva La Bams, punching bag, Uncle Don Vito, was found guilty of groping three girls,and when I mean girls I mean girls, children. He was found guilty of fondling or groping 12 and 14-year-old girls during separate incidents at a signing event at Woodward Skatepark at the Colorado Mills mall in Lakewood, Colorado. When he heard the verdict he fell to his knees and said, "Oh God Kill me now!"
Ni$$er- What??
Nas's upcoming CD, which might be entitled, I hate using this word, Ni$$er, is seriously under fire. Brooklyn assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries demands that the New York Comptroller withdraw the $84 million state pension fund invested in Universal Music Group and its parent company Vivendi, if they release the album with this name. Nas still isn't discussing stuff yet.
Nas says:
“It’s not ready for me to talk about. The album is done, basically, but …it’s a piece of art. It’s like talking to your child about sex. It’s hard, but it’s important…It’s probably going to make people uncomfortable. I don’t expect a lot of people to sell a record called ‘Nigger.’ Hopefully, people can open their minds up and lose some of their fear and deal with it. It’s just an album.”
That word will never be positive, please stop trying to make it main stream.
Hasta lasagna, I got my EyEs on yA!!
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