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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."
Jethro, get offuh Slashdot! Gonna be late for the Klan meetun!
as we all came from a single cell organism.
Indeed. It's a ludicrous headline, typical for the kind of hyperbole of science journalism.
Humans originate from Africa. Where very ancient primates originate from is another question, and isn't all that relevant to the particular issue of human origins. This moronic story has a headline that sounds like somebody is trying to reinvoke the multi-regional hypothesis.
Shame on Slashdot. Shame on the fucking retard who wrote the article.
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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.
Humans aren't that freaky. We are pretty much identical to chimps, with slightly better communication hardware.
Perhaps complex communication triggered divergent evolution. Humans (well, proto-human talking chimps) work well together, but not with normal chimps. Normal chimps had advantages though - they could communicate far faster. Simple communication is a good thing if all you want to say is "LEOPARD!!!!".
Once we'd diverged, the talking apes found they were better off in the savanna and beaches than the forest (where speed is more important than strategy).
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.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
The headline makes no suggestion of multiregional origin. You misinterpreted it; any shame should be on you for that error.
The out-of-Africa hypothesis implies that our ancestry – back as far as we can meaningfully trace it – was entirely in Africa (back as far as that designation is also meaningful). If it turns out that our primate ancestors instead evolved elsewhere, and relocated there, that is relevant to the question of human origins, because.... it's a part of that origin.
Oh, and GTFU.
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Humans aren't that freaky. We are pretty much identical to chimps, with slightly better communication hardware.
And better haircuts. Don't forget that!
If it turns out that our primate ancestors instead evolved elsewhere, and relocated there, that is relevant to the question of human origins, because.... it's a part of that origin.
No, you said it yourself: "as far back as we can meaningfully trace". It seems that there is some ambiguity with some of the early hominin ancestors, but basically, humans and their immediate predecessors originate from Africa. This is what happens when computer geeks think they're fully qualified to talk about paleo-anthropology or other messy science things that don't involve mathematical proofs.
Perhaps complex communication triggered divergent evolution. Humans (well, proto-human talking chimps) work well together, but not with normal chimps. Normal chimps had advantages though - they could communicate far faster. Simple communication is a good thing if all you want to say is "LEOPARD!!!!".
Or we're descended from the few who understood when one of the walking, talking apes came back into the forest and said, "DUDE! There's a whole f***ing WORLD out there!"
Humans aren't that freaky. We are pretty much identical to chimps, with slightly better communication hardware.
Actually, I think that idea has pretty much been discredited with the discovery of "Ardi", the oldest direct human ancestor ever found, that was actually more like a human than a chimp. If anything, chimps evolved MORE from that common ancestor than humans did, despite the similarity in the genome.
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Neoteny accounts for a lot of the differences between chimps and humans.
In a sense that's not even divergent evolution, as humans are just discarding the specializations that chimps develop as they mature, rather than replacing them with a different set of specializations.
Skull question: Which two of these skulls are the most similar?
You need to read the reply below you to see why I take that tone. Also, I'm not a paleoanthropologist (bioinormatics actually), but I find it hilarious that people who know a lot about a certain domain of knowledge think they don't need to read up on another domain but throw around opinions they think are perfectly valid. Also, what I wrote is a non-sequitur only if you don't know what you are talking about and don't want to read up on the topic, which is common whenever slashdot runs an article not based on CS, Math or Physics.
So it is true that lawyers predate humans. I thought that was just a myth...
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Not in a social setting. The hero who saves all the young females by yelling run/danger/leopard becomes the center of attention and gets all kinds of benefits. Extra grooming, food treats, more sex and offspring.
Pretty good deal if you ask me.
The guy who gets sex is the big guy who beats on his women. Just like in ye olde cave days.
Nice guys finish last, white knights get friend zoned, etc.