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BBC News | SCI/TECH | 'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa The skull is so old that it comes from a time when the creatures which were to become modern humans had not long diverged from the line that would become chimpanzees.

{this points to the distance, the vast desert in between the great valleys of science and spirituality. the writer says: "....diverged from the line that became...." why does he say that? what fundamental stance is revealed? why the insistence on a line and branches? isn't that a holdover from the dead days of anthropocentric fundamentalism?
aren't we truly first cousins? hasn't that been demonstrated beyond doubt now? but isn't kinship at the heart of this quiet war? those of us who are proud of that relation and those who are ashamed of it? and isn't the shame not the sullied propriety of a southern family soiled with the tar brush, but the actually inferior place we occupy compared to them, our brothers and sisters still in the the living heart of the world? these people will continue to insist the superiority of their bloodlines while at the same time destroying the web of life that still remains.
not that all that is in that one phrase, but it does lurk right behind it.}