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Humans First Arose in Asia?
IZ Reloaded writes "Two archaeologists are proposing the idea that early humans first arose in Asia instead of Africa as previously thought. These early humans then migrate out of Asia to parts of the world. From National Geographic: 'The unresolved status of the intriguing Flores finds attributed to H. floresiensis leaves open the possibility that this species is the end result and last survivor of an ancient migration of very primitive humans, or even prehumans, that formerly existed more widely across Asia ... '"
and humans.
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You can find that almost anywhere. Like here - browse at -1, for example.
You feel that beeing releated to Slashdotter regulars is an improvement?
Amazing, even human evolution is getting outsourced to Asia!
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...was an extrememly hot babe. Hotter than any babe that has existed since. Then a genetic abberation caused geeks to appear and people became less hot. Except for Carmen Electra.
I'm taking bets on how long it will take for (Jesse Jackson|Al Sharpton|Malcom X's ghost) to attack the finsings...
But they didn't reproduce because they were homos.
Let me check with the Flying Spaghetti monster on this... he says no! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_mons ter
He IS a /. regular, you insensitive clod!
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Wasn't spaghetti invented in Asia?
Evil Lord Xenu froze all the alien races and dumped them into volcanoes here on earth. Their souls were collected by soul vacuumes and then forced to watch movies and be brainwashed, only to then inhabit the bodies of primitive man. I think that's how it goes, I still have to pay for a few more audit councelings before my thetan levels are capable of truly grasping this profound knowledge
So an early asian humanoid and a early african humanoid walk into a bar...
After all, wouldn't the Flying Spaghetti Monster have reached His noodly appendage to that part of the world where He first created humans to bless them first with the secret of Noodles?
Who knows? It could happen.
Can't we just look for the region of the world that has a large concentration of talking snakes?
Why isn't everyone driving around at 20 mph with their turning signal on?
It seems that the large, flat expanses of Africa are more conducive to the evolution of bipedal locomotion; which is the most effecient form of leg-based movement for endurance and traversing long distances (bepedalism is essentially a pendulum).
;)
Asia does have it's fair share of flat expanses of course, but the amazing flora and fauna of Africa, the diversity thereof and climate change data still seems to point to an evolutionary hotspot on the globe.
Nevertheless, let's not fall into the mindset where alternative theories are tossed aside simply because they don't "feel" right.
Meteor crater in Arizona was once thought to have been caused by lava and steam - but now we know it was created by an intelligent designer
oh I kid, I kid!
> Take a look at your dollar bills "In god we thrust"
*chuckle*
ZOMG TORRENT PLS!!!
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God? is that like aliens?
I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I swear, I at first read the'f' as a 't', and, oh, the imagery! What a South Park episode that would make!
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Were they looking for I.T. jobs?
Those scientists just couldn't handle the idea that they descended from black folks! They don't mind being related to the Chinese, but they want no part of us! Anything to keep the black man down! :-)
Hiawatha Bray
Tech Reporter
Boston Globe
We didn't originate from Asia, we originated from the telephone cleaners, hairdressers, and account executives from Golgafrincha. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the _End_of_the_Universe
So that explains why I like eating Chinese food so much...
Sweet, I'm off to find the dragonballs.
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They arose in Asia, but were quickly deemed illegal monopoly and split in several pieces accross the world.
I saw that and thought for a moment I'd happened upon an off-topic thread about regular expressions.
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Flamebait? Sheesh! You guys got zero sense of humor!
Hiawatha Bray
Tech Reporter
Boston Globe
If you believe Bush actually said those things, you're dumber than any religious nut.
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