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Dec 2 2013 12:08pm
"The oldest known stone-tipped projectiles have been discovered in Ethiopia. The javelins are roughly 280,000 years old and predate the earliest known fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, by about 80,000 years."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131126-oldest-javelins-stone-weapons-projectiles-human-evolution-science/?now=2013-11-26-00:01
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Dec 2 2013 12:37pm
What questions
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These javelins are some 200,000 years older than previous examples of similar weapons, suggesting that modern humans and their extinct relatives had the know-how to create these sorts of complex thrown projectiles much earlier than often thought.


this is the only thing that has changed....


how on earth does this raise questions about evolution? all it does is raise questions on how long our ancestors/humans have been using javelins.
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Dec 2 2013 05:31pm
Quote (HeLiCaL @ 2 Dec 2013 18:08)
"The oldest known stone-tipped projectiles have been discovered in Ethiopia. The javelins are roughly 280,000 years old and predate the earliest known fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, by about 80,000 years." ...


what questions on evolution does it raise in your opinion?
is it details in the time-line? maybe
is it a question about the general principles of evolution?
the answer to that was given by 'Subwoofer' in the previous post

you should be more specific when you make grandiose statements
else you come across as substantially undereducated
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Dec 2 2013 05:48pm
he is not the one that came up with the "raise questions on evolution".

thats the name of the article itself.

This post was edited by Subwoofer on Dec 2 2013 05:50pm
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Dec 2 2013 06:06pm
its by nat geo. that's why the title is bullshit. their writers are terribad.

This post was edited by NatureNames on Dec 2 2013 06:07pm
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Dec 2 2013 09:12pm
But are they eth rep tho?
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Dec 2 2013 11:14pm
Quote (nightbringer757 @ Dec 2 2013 08:12pm)
But are they eth rep tho?


:rofl:
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Dec 3 2013 12:04am
It's worth noting the word evolution is not used once in the entire article besides the title, they just threw that in there to get attention. The justification for that title appears to be related to the evolution of human/hominid spear technology... I wonder when humans created the first eth rep fools javelins.
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Dec 4 2013 11:14pm
nah cause the earth only 6000 years old yo

This post was edited by Clicquot on Dec 4 2013 11:15pm
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