Posted on 01/13/2006 4:46:20 PM PST by blam
This will warm the heart of Milford Wolpoff.
That one is from another planet!
BWAHAHAHA!
Excuse me while I get some paper towels to wipe the Sprite off my monitor.
Google "Rex Gilroy of Katoomba" to get an idea of his body of work. I get the feeling that if it weren't for the commuting time, he'd be a staple on Art Bell (or whatever it's called these days).
Bega Hobbits are the direct ancestors of the dimunitive and very un-homo-sapien and inhuman Howard Dean.
Let's hear all those high-school dropout, mail-order "Reverends" now tell us how all this is bunk. C'mon, enlighten us with your I.D. genius.
Homo Erectus-like - 7 million years ago?
Tree-dwelling primates in Australia?
Hominid or hominoid? Can they really tell with just part of an endocast?
Revolutionary if it holds up. PS: It ain't gonna hold up.
I would like to see the evidence on this one. There are a couple of things that do not fit with established theory. I would also like to hear what the other local (SE Asia) experts think. Some weird stuff going on down there, but you gotta have evidence to get anywhere.
(And I'm one of those "evo-nazis" you hear referred to by some posters!)
I know, you're still hoping for evidence for your "Out of Romania" theory.
This is really worth a ping to the list, but blam prefers that we don't turn his threads into crevo battlefields. I will, however, ping "the few" who will be particularly interested.
Personally, I hold with the "out of CA" theory. I think the evidence is in the present day inhabitants of the coast, liberal Aborigines
at one time, it was out of China... remember PekingMan???
B --> Bega --> Begala
Check for inferior race with prominent forehead.
Were there any eutherians in OZ 7 mya?
The above (by claiming Bega-hobbit "eventually" gave rise to a proto-erectus) implies the Bega thing is at least as modern as a late australopithecine or early habiline.
It's not that advanced or it's not that old. That's all.
From the article: "Rex Gilroy is aware that his claims will not be acceptable to the hard-core 'Out of Africa' school of anthropologists, but he believes that this attitude will be changed as further pre-Aboriginal fossil finds come to light in this most ancient of continents."
I believe the Bega endocast represents a race of ancestral hominids, which in time evolved into a proto-Homo erectus race from which Homo erectus proper evolved, here in Australia before he did anywhere else, to in turn evolve into anatomically modern humans, probably by around 300,000 years ago (as suggested by 'late' Homo erectus and 'archaic' Homo sapien mineralised skull-types from a central western NSW site in his possession), well before Homo sapiens 'first' appeared in Africa by around 150,000 years ago according to current evidence.
Lester believes the damn thing was a monkey. But you and Gilroy go ahead and keep believing the other, montag813. At least Gilroy characterizes his belief as such.
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