Homo Heidelbergensis
Posted on 09/04/2015 1:49:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Research into 430,000-year-old fossils... A large international research team including Binghamton University anthropologist Rolf Quam studied the body size and shape in the human fossil collection from the site of the Sima de los Huesos in the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. Dated to around 430,000 years ago, this site preserves the largest collection of human fossils found to date anywhere in the world. The researchers found that the Atapuerca individuals were relatively tall, with wide, muscular bodies and less brain mass relative to body mass compared to Neanderthals. The Atapuerca humans shared many anatomical features with the later Neanderthals not present in modern humans, and analysis of their postcranial skeletons (the bones of the body other than the skull) indicated that they are closely related evolutionarily to Neanderthals...
Comparison of the Atapuerca fossils with the rest of the human fossil record suggests that the evolution of the human body has gone through four main stages, depending on the degree of arboreality (living in the trees) and bipedalism (walking on two legs). The Atapuerca fossils represent the third stage, with tall, wide and robust bodies and an exclusively terrestrial bipedalism, with no evidence of arboreal behaviors. This same body form was likely shared with earlier members of our genus, such as Homo erectus, as well as some later members, including the Neanderthals. Thus, this body form seems to have been present in the genus Homo for over a million years.
It was not until the appearance of our own species, Homo sapiens, when a new taller, lighter and narrower body form emerged. Thus, the authors suggest that the Atapuerca humans offer the best look at the general human body shape and size during the last million years before the advent of modern humans.
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Homo Heidelbergensis
Yeah, uh huh.
Waiting for the model that comes with three hands and night vision.
Aren’t there are still a few from the second version running around Chicago somewhere?
You can still find the first version running wild in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo.
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Kinda looks like Harry Reid, doesn’t it?
And yet the majority of the human population is still stupid beyond belief.
It is almost as if something came down and fiddled with the human species a few times....
Your posted photo indicates that malnutrition does awful things to humans. Having said that, our DNA is remarkably stable - we always seem to reproduce after our own kind.
what i need to know..is when did the democrats split off from the mainstream and begin the devolution of the human mind??
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