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Yet another human cousin discovered
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
Read that article today. Love reading that sort of stuff.
The critters from those caves in S. Aftrica are also really fascinating, especially since they date to just a couple of hundred thousand years ago though the also possess characteristics of much earlier hominids.
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
I figured it would have been one of the 12 Cylon skinjob models...
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
another 'discovery' why Darwin and others of his ilk are my faves.....
it's why I'm an atheist....
thanks for sharing!
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 09:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote: another 'discovery' why Darwin and others of his ilk are my faves.....
it's why I'm an atheist....
thanks for sharing!
Stink, have you read any about this discovery?
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/afric...index.html
The story was particularly fascinating because those doing the excavating of the ancient remains had to crawl through spaces so small that at one point they're forced to move forward with one arm extended above the head and the other pressed down along their sides.
Besides being too fat to squeeze through such an opening, I've done all the spelunking I'll ever do in this life.
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
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03-16-2018 09:30 PM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
Are these the tiny people? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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03-16-2018 10:03 PM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 10:03 PM)bubbapt Wrote: Are these the tiny people? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The Dennis Rodman look-alike was probably pretty tiny by our standards but the really tiny people were the females who did all the grunt work in the cave excavating the site.
https://phys.org/news/2015-09-fossilized...aledi.html
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03-16-2018 10:10 PM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 10:10 PM)TechRocks Wrote: (03-16-2018 10:03 PM)bubbapt Wrote: Are these the tiny people? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The Dennis Rodman look-alike was probably pretty tiny by our standards but the really tiny people were the females who did all the grunt work in the cave excavating the site.
https://phys.org/news/2015-09-fossilized...aledi.html
I think that's swell.
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 09:24 PM)TechRocks Wrote: (03-16-2018 09:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote: another 'discovery' why Darwin and others of his ilk are my faves.....
it's why I'm an atheist....
thanks for sharing!
Stink, have you read any about this discovery?
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/afric...index.html
The story was particularly fascinating because those doing the excavating of the ancient remains had to crawl through spaces so small that at one point they're forced to move forward with one arm extended above the head and the other pressed down along their sides.
Besides being too fat to squeeze through such an opening, I've done all the spelunking I'll ever do in this life.
no doubtl.....I've never questioned the 'how' once I initially studied evolution......I've always been a believer the 'why' will always be 'acceptable theory'.....
that's the way my brain works en macro....I suck at semantics unless it involves numbers....I won't even lie about it....
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2018 10:19 PM by stinkfist.)
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
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03-16-2018 10:20 PM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2018 10:22 PM by stinkfist.)
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 10:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (03-16-2018 09:24 PM)TechRocks Wrote: (03-16-2018 09:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote: another 'discovery' why Darwin and others of his ilk are my faves.....
it's why I'm an atheist....
thanks for sharing!
Stink, have you read any about this discovery?
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/afric...index.html
The story was particularly fascinating because those doing the excavating of the ancient remains had to crawl through spaces so small that at one point they're forced to move forward with one arm extended above the head and the other pressed down along their sides.
Besides being too fat to squeeze through such an opening, I've done all the spelunking I'll ever do in this life.
no doubtl.....I've never questioned the 'how' once I initially studied evolution......I've always been a believer the 'why' will always be 'acceptable theory'.....
that's the way my brain works en macro....I suck at semantics unless it involves numbers....I won't even lie about it....
My younger brother and I were into science since we were able to read and write. Our dad, a devout catholic, was a scientist working with rice production. I asked him one day how he squared evolution with the teachings of the church and he told me he believed that God had put the process of evolution in motion and that once man evolved to the point that he was aware of his own mortality, God gave him a soul.
That was good enough for me and we never discussed the topic again.
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03-16-2018 10:33 PM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 10:33 PM)TechRocks Wrote: (03-16-2018 10:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (03-16-2018 09:24 PM)TechRocks Wrote: (03-16-2018 09:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote: another 'discovery' why Darwin and others of his ilk are my faves.....
it's why I'm an atheist....
thanks for sharing!
Stink, have you read any about this discovery?
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/afric...index.html
The story was particularly fascinating because those doing the excavating of the ancient remains had to crawl through spaces so small that at one point they're forced to move forward with one arm extended above the head and the other pressed down along their sides.
Besides being too fat to squeeze through such an opening, I've done all the spelunking I'll ever do in this life.
no doubtl.....I've never questioned the 'how' once I initially studied evolution......I've always been a believer the 'why' will always be 'acceptable theory'.....
that's the way my brain works en macro....I suck at semantics unless it involves numbers....I won't even lie about it....
My younger brother and I were into science since we were able to read and write. Our dad, a devout catholic, was a scientist working with rice production. I asked him one day how he squared evolution with the teachings of the church and he told me he believed that God had put the process of evolution in motion and that once man evolved to the point that he was aware of his own mortality, God gave him a soul.
That was good enough for me and we never discussed the topic again.
I once had a mormon programmer that tried to 'explain things'......I told him the exact same thing......we never talked about it again....
even though I'm an atheist, who am I to dictate the 'why' as fact......it's the discovery that makes it enjoyable during our speck of breath.....
good for your pops.....mine is my hero too....oh yeah, catholic to the bone also....
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-16-2018 09:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote: another 'discovery' why Darwin and others of his ilk are my faves.....
it's why I'm an atheist....
thanks for sharing!
Now, now.....
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03-17-2018 01:46 AM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
How old is the oldest confirmed remains of humans as we consider them today? 10,000 years?
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03-17-2018 09:10 AM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
(03-17-2018 09:10 AM)Dasville Wrote: How old is the oldest confirmed remains of humans as we consider them today? 10,000 years?
Much, much older Dasville. N. America is believed to be the last continent inhabited by modern humans and there's evidence they were here well before the end of the ice age which was about 10,000 years ago.
It's thought that humans, as we know them today, Homo sapiens, evolved about 200,000 years ago in E. Africa. That's based on fossil evidence.
Having said that, I believe I read recently that somewhere in N. W. Africa there was a discovery of fossil remans that pushed back the date of Homo sapiens another 100,000 years or so. I'll see if I can find the article.
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03-17-2018 09:19 AM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
Seems like the atheists should be concerned with the evolution of the brain and not the body. In evolutionary terms, the digestive tract was first and “everything else” sprung from that. Regarding humans (as the atheist believe) “religion” was integral from the time of recognition.
Ironic is it not?
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03-17-2018 09:19 AM |
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RE: Yet another human cousin discovered
Here's the article Dasville.
Quote:Researchers say that they have found the oldest Homo sapiens remains on record in an improbable place: Morocco.
At an archaeological site near the Atlantic coast, finds of skull, face and jaw bones identified as being from early members of our species have been dated to about 315,000 years ago. That indicates H. sapiens appeared more than 100,000 years earlier than thought: most researchers have placed the origins of our species in East Africa about 200,000 years ago.
The finds, which are published on 7 June in Nature do not mean that H. sapiens originated in North Africa. Instead, they suggest that the species' earliest members evolved all across the continent, scientists say.
https://www.nature.com/news/oldest-homo-...ry-1.22114
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