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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.
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.
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?
a sub-human
Listen buddy, misusing the comments section is NOT COOL. Weirdo.
The comments section here does seem to be broken. Where's that healthy discourse of those really genuine geeks that brought me here in the first place - and kept me quiet? Where are those funny, insightful, interesting, and informative comments? Even tongue-in-cheek, obsidian, and blithe remarks would be welcome - if they were cool.
Does /. have an exclusive 'cool geek' mode that I'm not privy to?
And finally, just because there is a predilection for subversion these days: Are there forces out there trying to bring /. down? Maybe all this trolling is really part of a conspiracy from a {bevy, collection, gang, swarm, herd, army, murder} of Cambridge Analytica types who's goal is to remold our minds in time for the next election. It could even be Antigonish, the deep, dark state 'that isn't there', trying to manipulate the huddled masses yearning to be geek.
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.
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 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.
I finally setting my comment thread to filter out most ACs, and set the threshold at just below +1, and it's a lot more like old /. For instance, this thread now has 12 posts with 40 hidden, so it's almost civil.