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New Human Species Found In Philippines (bbc.com)
Major Blud writes: A newly discovered extinct species of human has been found in the Philippines. It's been named Homo Luzonensis after the island of Luzon where it was found. Homo Erectus has long thought to have been the first member of our direct line to leave the African homeland -- around 1.9 million years ago. The physical features of Homo Luzonensis are a mixture of those found in very ancient human ancestors and in more recent people. This could mean primitive human relatives left Africa and made it all the way to South-East Asia, something not previously thought possible, since Luzon was only ever accessible by sea. The paper detailing the discovery has been published in the journal Nature.
So maybe name them Homo Sexual?
The so-called 'new' human species is not new.
They are a sub-branch of the Denisovans.
Is that their President is a homicidal alien
We definitely had descendants in Africa. We can trace large migrations out of Africa. Even the researchers suggest this species in the Mediterranean might have migrated back to Africa. Finally scientists are skeptical of this specimen as detailed in the article you linked.
Talk about burying the lede. They've been dead for thousands of years. An important detail.
Now, Luzon is only accessible by sea, but there are plenty of theories around about lower sea-levels creating a landbridge through Indonesia and on to mainland Asia during the last ice age. Have these theories been conclusively disproven now, or is the article trying too hard to be sensational by implying that our pre-historic relatives were capable of navigating the oceans, while the homo sapiens who surplanted them only gained that skill much later in their history?
They reproduced by grabbing by the ....
then Trump and his fellow nazis have black ancestry? Only one thing to do. KILL THEMSELVES!
Yeah, you can image them singing that song on their way to that island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDOIp8Gtx5Y
If 5 year old kids can make a raft then sure cavemen from 20000BC would be able to do that.
Dear missing-link, Given your post I'd say the Trumpanze is not extinct.
a sub-human
FYI... Not everyone is convinced: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-11/new-species-of-early-human-found-in-a-cave-on-the-philippines/10985676
More creativity please.
Trump received the Ellis Island Award in 1986, together with Rosa Parks. Just idiots like you could think he is a racist and against blacks.
That's what annoys me about a lot of educational books is that they state matter of factly "the earliest humans lived in..." and then the next edition they update it to the newest find and still state it matter of factly.
No, we are going to find newer and newer and broader ranges of what evolved to us being modern humans.
Another thing is that a lot of these finds sometimes show the paths they would have taken transposed on out current world map but they completely ignore a million years of continental drift and other such variables.
Trump was honored for his work as a successful real-estate developer in New York City and his German heritage, his award had nothing to do with race one way or the other. How ever he was sued(along with his father) for civil rights violations/racial discrimination. And his father was a known KKK member. He aligns himself with Nazis and the Alt-right, and you don't have to look very far to see he is a racist, as racist comments come out of his own mouth frequently enough.
We definitely had descendants in Africa. We can trace large migrations out of Africa.
That is not what Out of Africa comprises: Out of Africa means that modern humans developed exclusively or almost exclusively in Africa and then they get out of Africa, already in their modern form, to colonize the world. Instead, the main theories challenging that view have modern humans developing significantly (for example, interbreeding with other human species not found in Africa and so on) not in Africa or not just in Africa.
Now all of those atheists will be saying that the facts are different from the "facts" that they shoved down our throats originally, and they will be presenting that as a fact... Until the next time it's proven to be a steaming pile of BS and there will be a new fact. Maybe people should be more straight up when they talk about theories?
Honestly, Adolf was better than Stalin....
We definitely had descendants in Africa.
Speak for yourself. I was well behaved on my vacation in Africa, not just because of the risk of AIDS.
The species of the president of the phillapines? He is not human
Instead, the main theories challenging that view have modern humans developing significantly (for example, interbreeding with other human species not found in Africa and so on) not in Africa or not just in Africa.
That observation doesn't challenge the African origin. I have never heard that the out of Africa would be synonymous to the end of evolutional processes. Especially since the out of Africa is based on gene flow and diversity.
Neanderthal DNA can be found in the immune systems of Europeans at least which supposedly gives us resistance to the local germs. The red hair is also their contribution. Meanwhile there have been mutations like tolerance to higher altitudes even during the last 20k years. The ankle thickness of populations who live in the colder areas has also changed just like that of horses for example.
Even within a single group of chimpanzee there is larger genetic variation than the within the whole of human kind, which tells us something about the evolutionary bottlenecks of the past.
The headline seemed to suggest we actually met a completely new type of living, breathing human. When I found out that we're talking about an ancient species dead for millennia, I was really disappointed.
Yes, I'm weird. I RTFA.
Trump was honored for his work as a successful real-estate developer in New York City and his German heritage, his award had nothing to do with race one way or the other. How ever he was sued(along with his father) for civil rights violations/racial discrimination. And his father was a known KKK member. He aligns himself with Nazis and the Alt-right, and you don't have to look very far to see he is a racist, as racist comments come out of his own mouth frequently enough.
Off topic
Right wing kooks don't accept science or evolution. They believe that black people bear the curse and mark of Cain.
It's going to be a big surprise when they realize that white people have only been around for around 8,500 years.
[Trump] aligns himself with Nazis and the Alt-right
Some stuff that aligns one with the Nazis/Hitler:
* Animal welfare
* Environmentalism
* Vegetarianism
* Hatred of Christian religions
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TED: Juliet Brophy on Homo naledi — March 2018
Pretty good, by the standards of 2018 TED. Many new questions, ultimately no new theories of any real depth, and mostly a lot of excited "more research needed".