SO THE LATEST NATURE NEWS SAYS
FOOT ANALYSIS PROVES HOMO FLORENSIS WAS SEPARATE SPECIES
by badboy 5 Replies latest jw friends
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villabolo
Chalam, what do you think of that?
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badboy
bttt
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villabolo
So this particular Homo (No sexually oriented pun intended) was a petite upright walking hominid who supposedly hunted giant rats and dwarf elephants.
It's brain is more intriguing than its feet. No rocket scientist at one third our capacity but it had bulging temporal lobes. I wonder what thoughts it had other than FOOD! & F***?
As far as its feet it's just a curiosity that could allow us to trace its ancestry one day. Not quite like Homo Erectus but definitely not like a Chimp. The big toe is much smaller and skinnier than other Homo's but more or less like ours, a foot/ foot as I like to describe it in stead of a foot/hand which is what chimpanzees have attached to their legs. This implies, for the moment, heredity from a more primitive being than Erectus.
It also means that it must have been isolated on that Island for a long, long time. It would have made for an interesting Gilligan's Island episode.
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HintOfLime
Those fools! Don't they know every time they find one of these 'transitional' fossils in an "evolutionary gap", all they do is create 2 new "evolutinary gaps"?
1 -> ??? -> 9
..becomes...
1 -> ??? -> 5 -> ??? -> 9
At this rate, they'll never prove evolution!
- Lime
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villabolo
Hint of Lime, "transitional" is a relative term and Homo Floresiensis was never considered a direct ancestor of Homo Sapiens but rather a side branch, very much of a side branch. As far as the rate of discovery is concerned Paleoanthropology is a very understaffed and underfunded endeavor. If we had a hundred times as much people digging for fossils we would have a wondrously detailed picture.
Nevertheless at this point enough has been discovered to prove one basic fact, humanity, like everything else has been evolving.