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Researchers Say S. African Bones Are From Previously Unknown Human Relative
Ancient, but so far undated, remains found in a South African cave (more than 1500 pieces of bone and teeth) have been declared by the team which discovered them to represent a previously unknown kind of human relative, which they have dubbed Homo naledi. New submitter chapman writes: The human-like bones discovered in the Rising Star cave, 50km from Johannesburg, may belong to a new species of "long-legged," "pinheaded," and "gangly" human relative. Apparently the chamber in the cave where the discovery was made is so inaccessible (only 8 inches wide) that the team brought in a group of lightly-built female researchers in order to excavate the bones. Science Mag, too, describes the find as well as the controversy about the unusual publicity surrounding the exploration. The Guardian's article notes that the identification of the bones as belonging to a new species is disputed by some anthropologists, who say that based on the evidence presented so far, the bones may simply be examples of the previouly named Homo erectus.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
it's an alien.
A monkey's uncle...
The number of new species seems proportional to amount work done. We had a similar corundum in geological plate tectonics a couple decades ago. Nearly every new PhD thesis was discovering a new plate tectonic micro-plate. Finaly did what the planet astronomers did and divide them into significant ones and minor ones.
I don't see how a population whose skulls are literally half the size of a typical H. erectus skull (among many other major differences) could be seen as just another H. erectus. And not just one, potentially deformed individual, but 15 individuals with the same characteristics. And even if they were the same species, this would still be a remarkable find - so many full, intact bodies in the same location. In a weird location, and in a land far from where H. erectus was known to have lived.
You don't exist. Go away.
Pinheads? They found this clan:
http://static.rogerebert.com/u...
Table-ized A.I.
Are you talking about a particular incident or just in general? Martian meteorites are identified by the gas trapped within them, general isotopic ratios, and a number of other factors.
You don't exist. Go away.
Carlton S. Coon has a less than stellar reputation among anthropologists and to cite his work as representative of the "facts" of anthropology is a disservice, to put it mildly. Hos views were used be segregationists to "prove" Blacks were inferior to whites. His original book on race deviated from the consensus reached by anthropologists (and the DNA evidence, among others) when he claimed that Whites were descended from Chimpanzees, Blacks from Gorillas, and Asians from the Orangutan. I don;t thoink you will be able to find any contemporary competent anthropologists who would make the kinds of claims you are making here supporting Coon, whose ideas have been thoroughly discredited in anthropological circles.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
Er, this has been reviewed and published: http://elifesciences.org/
If you page down in the Naledi article, you will see a transcript of the peer review.
And no, I don't know why they didn't publish in NAture or Science, perhaps they aren't Apple users.
Oddly, I was in this cave complex "Sterkfontein" just three weeks ago. The cave where this discovered is not on the toru path but damned well guarded.
I am off to the Origins Centre at Wits University tomorrow to peek at the bones myself.
What of these lightly-built female researchers? Scantily clad Lara Croft types? Mmmm?
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Homo Florensis is the Hobbit.
Now bones of oddly shaped humanoid creatures found piled in the bottom of a cave?
A. Balin and his Dwarves in Moria.
B. Gollum's leftover Orc bones in his original cave before Bilbo met him.
"We just dug up some bones in the family plot..."
"Was it uncle Frank?"
"No, uncle Frank is buried in the North end..."
"Was it uncle Sal?"
"No, uncle Sal is in the South end. There wasn't supposed to be anyone buried in the west end..."
"Are you sure it wasn't aunt Daisy's chimp?"
"No, no, it's definitely a human..."
"So you're saying... It's A Previously Unknown Human Relative?!?"
The ones on reptilian lizard people are really funny. Most conspiracy videos are Except for the ones with obviously mentally ill people. Those are kinda sad.
There is no such thing as more or less evolved. There is no end goal to evolution.
My precious!
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
"His views were used by segregationists". Worse he colluded with segregationists and actively aided them while ignoring his scientific objectivity.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Then again we are responding to a racist troll.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Pinheaded? Must be Bennett's ancestors...
>pinheaded
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BMO
Lois Piltdown.
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I'm more interested in knowing how any modern human squeezed through a 25cm and 20cm pathway to the cave. Wearing headlamps and helmets or not, unless they had contortionist scientists?
The end goal of evolution is survival and the most evolved are those genes that are still around.
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Carlton S. Coon
Pure comedy gold.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it