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An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors?
InfiniteZero writes "Researchers agree that our immediate ancestors, the upright walking apes, arose in Africa. But the discovery of a new primate that lived about 37 million years ago in the ancient swamplands of Myanmar bolsters the idea that the deep primate family tree that gave rise to humans is rooted in Asia. If true, the discovery suggests that the ancestors of all monkeys, apes, and humans—known as the anthropoids—arose in Asia and made the arduous journey to the island continent of Africa almost 40 million years ago."
You need to study your racial slurs.
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I've always felt humans are one of those "freak animals" that develop on isolated islands like platypus or finches with giant beaks or whatever. We were probably trapped on some remote island and developed these giant freak brains and then eventually managed to escape and spread out across the planet.
as we all came from a single cell organism.
Well, since we're tracing the origin of our species anyway, why not simply say our ancestors came from the sea? You can't get any further back than that, unless you think that life migrated from outer space.
37 million years ago is a looooong time ago. More than halfway along the time dimension to the age of the dinosaurs. I'm surprised primates arose that quickly.
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You sure typed a lot for not having read the summary at all.
It's not a lack, so much, but that white folks have Neanderthal bits in their DNA, where Africans are more purely Homo Sapiens. The AC above made a good point, the human race probably evolved a big brain, got the itch to travel and seeded the world with proto humans, who then stayed relatively stationary, who then evolved into genetically semi-compatible Neanderthal, Denova, African and I think there were others. There were probably plenty of races of these, and it's quite possibly where our mythology of trolls, hobbits and other weird human-likes came from.
In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its mutant fish hands and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. Retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a monkey-fish-frog. And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey and that made you!
Please at least use the correct name for the country. It happened 37Ma ago, the junta went rampant only in 1962. We don't use renamed months when talking about Rome by Commodus or Turkmenistan by Niyazov.
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have known this for decades
probably more like Neanderthals raping our womens
probably more like Neanderthals raping our womens
so what are you going to do 'bout it?
Wait, so instead of the slogan "We are all Africans", we might have to change it to "We are all Asian-Africans"?
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probably more like Neanderthals raping our womens
Or their dirty women jumpin' our Neanderthals.
probably more like Neanderthals raping our womens
If I was a Neanderthal, I'd be hot for fat blonde chicks.
Now you have DONE IT!!! They will use this against us for another 40 years. Hehehe.. On the bright side, it will be ever so much fun to twist this thorn into the 'Evolutionist' side. Because you know, they just can't seem to say these little words; "I don't know for sure." Hehehe. I for one, abhore monkeys and so I believe that somewhere along the 'lemur' phase the branch containing feline DNA began developing. I hold cats and dogs in much much higher regard than our psychotic, self serving narcissistic great ape brethren. I believe my family tree originated on that side but branched off around the 'still able to lick your own balls' forking. Come to think of it, I just don't see humans coming from apes. Most people I know are much more like rhesus monkeys or macaques.
I was once a single cell organism about 9 months before I was born.
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It's something that could arguably be found best in the congruence of factors giving to the rise of our elevated brain activity in a more complete fashion. In that sense, interesting to wonder when it 'came together' as complex activity (tools, large worship sites, etc.) seems to get further pushed back archaeologically more and more.
why does god hate fags if he made us all in his image?
Why not Zoidberg?
37 Million Years ago, someone already christened that place with the name of "Burma" ?
OL1: Anthropoids don't come from Myanmar - they come from ...
OL2: Burma!
OL1: Burma?!!? Why'd you say 'Burma' ????
OL2: Sory! I panicked!
Ghengis Khan.
In the case of Neanderthals, it is very possible that there was enough genetic similarity that cross breeding could happen even though technically they were different species.
Other examples of this can be found with other mammals such as Horses and Donkeys reproducing to produce Mules as well as Tigers and Lions producing Ligons and Tiglons. While such unions typically produce infertile offspring when they are of the same genus but different species (like Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis), such infertility doesn't always hold true. It really is a case of incomplete speciation.
I highly doubt that genetic evolution, even convergent evolution, would allow dissimilar species to ever mate... such as Klingons and Humans or Romulans and Ferrengi. Star Trek script writers did a whole bunch of handwaving and even made up a bunch of BS to try and explain how that worked.
That other species in the Homo genus were around from time to time may be true, and it would be interesting to see just how far speciation actually happened with them as well. I'm just suggesting that there are existing mechanisms that would explain how Neanderthal DNA could end up with some people in Europe, and it wouldn't even need to be that many Neanderthals which would form the core genetic pool for that DNA.
Weren't there theories in the early 20th century that humans had evolved from different primates in different places roughly simultaneously (at that time, used as a justification for a sort of patronizing racism - that of course the nonwhite peoples were 'not as evolved' as whites)?
Trying not to resurrect that theory's rationale, but would the article's line of reasoning perhaps suggest that humans MAY in fact have evolved in at least 2 places?
Racism's bad enough today. What would be the result if we figured out that we're actually the result of two SEPARATE human lines who somehow ended up interbreeding?
-Styopa
I knew that's where we originated!! I KNEW there had to be a reason for why we all eat rice and drive slow!
Someday, humans on Earth will know that they are not alone in the universe.
With that new information, humans will not come from ape from Africa or Asian. It will be a Truth that Earth had been many times colonize upon the millions of years that Earth exist.
Science is not Truth, Humans come from the universe.
Isn't that Obvious? ;-P
Aliens needed workforces all around the world, made alien-chimp hybrids all over the world and so we get different kinds of humans originating from various areas of the planet.
It's both simple and mind-boggling!
Star Trek script writers did a whole bunch of handwaving and even made up a bunch of BS to try and explain how that worked.
That was one thing that always annoyed me about Star Trek. It's bad enough that anyone would think that an alien species would look anything like us (which was the point of a short SF story I wrote) but to think species from completely different solar sytems could mate is beyond ludicrous.
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I always suspected we were descended from Spitfires.
Actually, wasn't it a TNG episode that involved tracking down some ancient message encoded in the combined DNA of various worlds that turned out to be a "We were here" from an earlier race that found itself alone in the galaxy and seeded various worlds with their DNA so that the later races would have someone to talk to? Maybe you include that in the BS category, but really something like that is probably the only realistic way you'd get a galaxy full of hominids (or DNA-based life for that matter), and it would at least open the door to the possibility of interspecies children. Especially if the ancients considered that a design feature.
I'm trying to remember if there were any cases of interspecies children prior to that episode, I can't think of any off-hand, other than Spock of course. But then I can't think of much in the way of explanations being offered for them at all - please point out a few, I'm curious now.
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Oh yes, an artist's rendering of an early human looks more like the modern-day people in the region than the modern-day people of other regions. What a compelling argument.
Even if accurate the similarities would mean nothing more than that white people had to adapt to a significantly different environment when they left the tropics, it's not like any species is "more evolved" than another - we've all been evolving since life first arose, the parent stock doesn't stop evolving just because part of the population branches off in a different direction.
Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't feed the trolls, sometimes one does manage to get under my skin though. If you're going to be a racist at least don't be an idiot about it. Or maybe we're finally reaching a point where only the idiots feel that racism has legitimate roots. There's a cheerful thought, I feel better now.
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because the circumstances allowed similar evolution? climate, supernovaparticles? big monoliths, who knows how it works yet? no one
i find similarities in the sound of language where i'm from and japanese but none in any of the african sounds, its far fetched ofcourse, and it might indeed lead to master race theories but still, why couldnt it have been like that? All these duds with their huge theories dont have actual proof, just a little evidence and a lot of deduction
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