The Ancestor of Humans Was an "Artist" 500,000 Years Ago

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 4, 2014 @06:18PM from the original-doodler dept.

brindafella writes Our ancient ancestor, Homo erectus, around 500,000 years ago, has been shown to make doodles or patterns. So, it seems that we Homo sapiens have come from a thoughtful lineage. The zig-zag markings cut into the covering of a fossil freshwater shell were from a deposit in the main bone layer of Trinil (Java, Indonesia), the place where Homo erectus was discovered by Eugène Dubois in 1891, says Dr Stephen Munro, a palaeoanthropologist with the Australian National University. The team's testing shows the erectus doodling was from 0.54 million years to a minimum of 0.43 million years ago. This pushes back the thoughtful making of marks by hundreds of thousands of years. The thoughtful gathering of shellfish and their nutrients also points to possible explanations for the evolving of bigger brains.

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So, are Africans less intelligent than whites? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-04 20:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What about Australian aborigines? Are they closer to apes than white people?
"Who do you believe, me, or your own, lying eyes..."
LOL. Let's just pretend that races don't exist, and that non-whites have a 'right' to be in SUPERIOR white countries. Otherwise, why are you so desperate to let non-whites live here? Surely not because it's WORSE than living around their own race, in their own country? LOL.