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Humans First Arose in Asia?

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-lost dept.

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 ... '"

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  1. Pfft. by big_groo · · Score: 5, Funny
    New Asian finds are significant, they say, especially the 1.75 million-year-old small-brained early-human fossils found in ...

    You can find that almost anywhere. Like here - browse at -1, for example.

  2. Re:On the first day.. by undeadly · · Score: 5, Funny
    I mean life is too complicated to arise by chance, right? I just don't want to believe I'm related to an animal renound for picking shit out of it's ass.

    You feel that beeing releated to Slashdotter regulars is an improvement?

  3. Wow, just wow. by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amazing, even human evolution is getting outsourced to Asia!

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  4. NO! by PixelScuba · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  5. Re:Except for the other guys... by Fiver- · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't we just look for the region of the world that has a large concentration of talking snakes?