South African fossils could be 'new human ancestor'

[Rath]

Slimebeast said:

Rath said:

Slimebeast said:
40% of a skeleton and they already know that "It was good in the trees and as good as us on the ground"?

And how they know it's 1.9 million years old? They picked up the thing on the savanna, from the surface (kid said he just turned over a little rock and the skull was there).

It's just stupid that they pretend to know so much.

You can tell a lot from a skeleton. Especially a skeleton on which you have so much information about its relatives.

 

You can read into a lot of information to a skeleton if you have the motives, yes.

Not motives, knowledge. The skeleton of a being tells you an awful lot about it, comparing a hominid to humans and the great apes will at least tell you how well it would fair on the savanna and in the jungle.

Also you dismiss the carbon dating on it being too accurate, how does being too accurate make it incorrect in your mind? The science its based on is very solid...