Researcher: Birds hunted ancient man

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Thursday, January 12, 2006; Posted: 1:17 p.m. EST (18:17 GMT)

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) – An American researcher said Thursday his investigation into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds.

“These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared,” Lee Berger, a paleo-anthropologist at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand, said as he presented his conclusions about a mystery that has been debated since the remains of the possible human ancestor known as the Taung child were discovered in 1924.
 
I thought ape-men were intelligent because they used tools? How could this happened to our ancestor?
 
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MugenOne:
I thought ape-men were intelligent because they used tools? How could this happened to our ancestor?
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Maybe they were sleeping when the birds attacked.😃
 
Before the ability to use tools distinguished our ancestors from the apes, they had no more to protect themselves than did other ape-like creatures. The development of tool use was gradual and did not develop in all prehuman lines.
 
Inasmuch as the Forum is “Non-Catholic Religions”, is the purpose of the thread to show that “early man” was non-Catholic - or just that the ancient birds were? :confused:

Or perhaps these “ancestors” of ours were proto-Catholics, and the “birds” early protestants? proto-Huguenots, perhaps?
 
Don’t worry. Col. Sanders has taken more than adequate revenge on behalf of the human species 😛

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tjmiller:
Inasmuch as the Forum is “Non-Catholic Religions”, is the purpose of the thread to show that “early man” was non-Catholic - or just that the ancient birds were? :confused:
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Perhaps “Apologetics” (ID-creationism-evolution) would have been a more appropriate sub-forum.
 
I saw a show on Early Man on Discovery or History and they said that even today children as old as 6 can be killed and carried off by eagles in Africa. A small child would be easy pickings even today whether the kids is a baptized Catholic and the bird a Protestant.
 
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