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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 huge desert of incomprehension that lies between the great valleys of science and spirituality. the fundamental stance of the writer revealed in the throwaway : "diverged from the line that would become....." what? why did he say that? what does that mean? what is implied? what truth is obscured there? why? is it kinship that's denied? isn't it always? the family connection that most troubles 'modern' thinkers, whether they're lost in superstition or lost in dry and lifeless rationality.}