"Human"Faced missing link,found in Spain?


	"Human"Faced missing link,found in Spain?

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6-13-2009 7:28 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1e6a65a1-bf3d-42f1-bac2-95233e074589/64C4620A-E664-46C5-95C1-0FB0D89C0B16/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html"><P>An 11.9-million-year-old fossil ape species with an unusually flat, "surprisingly human" face has been found in <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_spain.html">Spain</A>. The discovery suggests humans' ape ancestors split from primitive apes in Europe, not Africa—the so-called cradle of humanity—a new study says. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/E9D8E642-FE91-419E-85A6-7A99F4DA6339" alt="missing link picture - human-face ape" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html">The species, <I>Anoiapithecus brevirostris,</I> may also represent the last 
known common ancestor of humans and living great apes—including <A 
href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/orangutan.html?nav=A-Z">orangutans</A>, 
gorillas, and <A 
href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/chimpanzee.html">chimpanzees</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html">
<P><B>Surprisingly Human"</B> 
<P>Unearthed at a fossil-rich site near Barcelona in 2004, the fragmented skull 
remains suggest a species with human-like facial features,</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html">Resembling both primitive ape species and our early ancestors, 
<I>Anoiapithecus</I> could be called a missing link</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html">The ape's wide nose and long palate, for example, resemble those of the ancient 
apes from which great apes and humans arose</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-missing-link-human-face.html">But <I>Anoiapithecus'</I> thickly enameled teeth and robust jaw are like those 
of primitive <I>Kenyapithecus</I> fossil apes, which lived in both Africa and 
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