Re: MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL (A human skull as old as coal!)

Rohinton Collins (rohinton@collins.prestel.co.uk)
30 Oct 1996 21:19:38 GMT

Ed Conrad <edconrad@prolog.net> wrote in article
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>
> The WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL, unquestionably, is
> a petrified human skull embedded in a boulder which was discovered
> between anthracite veins in Carboniferous strata near Shenandoah, Pa.
>
> It means man -- in almost our present form but considerably larger --
> had existed on earth multi-million years before the initial emergence
> of the earliest cat-size, monkey-like primate which science texbooks
> have long proclaimed to be our most distant ancestor.

Get real. Try sci.bio.evolution. This newsgroup is for serious
palaeoanthropologists.
Please DO NOT follow-up this post Ed. Thankyou.

Regards,

Roh