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| Valley of Dry Bones (Gustave Dore) |
It seems as though Australopithecus afarensis (friends call her “Lucy”) may have hogged the evolutionary spotlight long enough.
These days, another hominid has joined the party of alleged human ancestors. This latest “find” (consisting of “fossilized remains” with “bones that are clearly different from Lucy’s”) has been named Australopithecus deyiremeda (“deyiremeda” meaning “close relative” in the Afar language).
Zacharias Abubeker of the AFP explains that both these hominid remains have been found in the Afar region of Ethiopia, within a mere 35 km of one another.
“Fierce squabbles” have already been developing as to where each should be placed “in the [human] family tree.”
Whether this “family tree” is rooted in the Afar, rather than in the Garden of Eden, is by far the bigger and fiercer “squabble.”
Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has confessed: Some of our colleagues
are going to be skeptical about this new
species, which is not unusual.
Perhaps such essential research should extend beyond the Valley of Dry Bones and into the realm of Living Waters.
Resources
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/lucy-may-not-be-our-mum-say-scientists/ar-BBkjzeb
Copyright May 28, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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