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'Missing link' in human history confirmed after long debate

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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/19/health/australopithecus-sediba-human-history-scli-intl/

Early humans were still swinging from trees two million years ago, scientists have said, after confirming a set of contentious fossils represents a "missing link" in humanity's family tree.The fossils of Australopithecus sediba have fueled scientific debate since they were found at the Malapa Fossil Site in South Africa 10 years ago.
And now researchers have established that they are closely linked to the Homo genus, representing a bridging species between early humans and their predecessors, proving that early humans were still swinging from trees 2 million years ago.
Its evolution, baby.
 

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One of many twigs on the branch....
 

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One of many twigs on the branch....

Correct. There is no missing link, the family tree is more or less known.

The term is only useful to rubes who think evolution somehow means a leap from apes to humans. That is not the case. Many branches of evolution have led to modern man and they've pretty much been tracked.
 

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our missing link built treehouses that accomidated beds the size of 1 person. For super sleep and generations worth of increasing the brain.

threw rocks over the shoulder so that rocks got to 30-40 maybe even 80 mph like a baseball pitcher.

learned to stockpile by placing the rocks in their treehouse, so that they could leave the treehouse safely in a certain radius. (next step would be stockpiling stones and spears at an outpost outside from their home)

And also young males willing to chew old women's food. These monkies had to learn to share old knowledge after their teeth rotted and the new youngsters knew the knowledge was worth it to keep the old alive. Somewhere some old one was worth keeping around to teach ALL the youngsters, so much so that the young chewed the food just to keep the old toothless around.

And this grew into a thing that could hunt birds with a rock willy nilly and come together to hunt greaters as a pack with sharp sticks, after they learned to defend against any bigger by the community throwing stones.
 
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