First ever Chip fossils found, does it change anything?

[Bill Nye Guy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20050831/sc_space/firsteverchimpfossilsfound

 

I just want to have your view on this new discovery. I personally think it doesn't change anything, and probably makes evolution more viable. What do you guys think...

 

 

BTW: sorry i spelled chimp wrong

[ed84c]

You spelt chimp wrong

[insane_alien]

i wondered what the hell he was going on about with "chip fossils"

[Hellbender]

I don't really see it changing anything.

[The Peon]

Probobly just a chimp our ancestors hunted, killed and ate and wound up near there homebase away from its enviroment. The problem with fossils is you have no idea how they got there without some sort of forensic evidence.

[LucidDreamer]

It means that an advanced form of Homo erectus and chimpanzees cohabitated that part of the rift valley about half a million years ago, not much more. The most likely scenario in my mind is that this is an example of re-cohabilitation, meaning that as man reached the level where he was capable of efficiently using stone tools he was successful enough that he spread throughout Africa into some regions where chimpanzees also occupied. The chimpanzees may have occupied that region for some time or they might have recently moved in. Both chimpanzees, man, and basically most forms of life will continue to spread out in all directions and then migrate or die off in those locations only to repeat the process all over again, sometimes to the same locations.

 

The rift valley is full of rivers, lakes, valleys, and canyons. This area is quite active geologically with a variety of places where one population of the common ancestor to man and chimpanzee might have become separated from another population. The rift valley is a transition area from the lush regions of the west from the dryer regions of the east, but the area is in a constant state of change. The lakes dry up and the rivers twist, change locations, and form new lakes. Some areas that are lush become dry and some areas probably become lusher for a time. The transition species that represent the genus homo were constantly spreading and forming pockets that became separated from the other lines, only to reinhabit the same areas once again with the descendant species of their own line or another. The fact that a very similar species to Homo sapiens once lived side by side with its distant cousin within this area of the valley is not surprising to me.

 

Also, it was mentioned by peon de that this could be an example of bones that man brought with him from another area that he hunted in or another human that he traded with, but I don't know the specifics of the find.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_Valley