Posted on 10/17/2013 3:20:40 PM PDT by blam
An Incredible New Skull Is Forcing Us To Rethink The Evolution Of Early Humans
Dina Spector
Oct. 17, 2013, 2:01 PM
Photo courtesy of Georgian National Museum
A 1.8-million-year-old skull combines a small braincase with a long face and large teeth, which is unlike any other Homo fossils on record.
Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus — Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis, for example.
But an amazing new skull found in a republic of Georgia suggests that the specimens previously representing different species could come from a single, evolving lineage, according to a new report published in Science on Thursday, Oct. 17.
So-called "Skull 5" was dug up in Dmanisi, Georgia, between 2000 and 2005. It's believed to date back roughly 1.8 million years and comes from the same time period and location as four other skulls found earlier at Dmanisi.
Skull 5 is unique not only because it is the most complete Homo skull ever found, but it also looks very different from the other skulls found at this site. It combines a small braincase — about one-third the size of modern humans — with a large face that has a massive jaw and big teeth.
"This is a strange combination of features that we didn't know before in the early Homo," Marcia S. Ponce de León, from the Anthropological Institute and Museum in Switzerland, said in a media conference on Oct. 16.
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Fake - either the skull, or the conclusions drawn from it.
New skull, 1.8 million years old:)
“It combines a small braincase — about one-third the size of modern humans — with a large face that has a massive jaw and big teeth.” Sounds like a liberal.
The early Homo was rather queer.
Early homos WERE probably different...
This is an article about this site that I posted ten years ago:
Stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa
Why do you think it is fake?
“But an amazing new skull found in a republic of Georgia suggests that the specimens previously representing different species could come from a single, evolving lineage”
Yeh, Adam and Eve. :-)
“a small braincase with a long face and large teeth”
homo sarahjessicaparkerus?
I want them to age progress a human about 500 years since before the flood we were allowed to live centuries. Gravity would have a profound effect on living bone structure.
“Sounds like a liberal.”
...liberalius democraticus...The Missing Link.
No human remains are millions of years old.
Soon as they said “Republic of Georgia” I got suspicious. Yeah, what we used to call the USSR is the source of all sorts of nutty stuff like that.
LOL
“roughly 1.8 million years.” Love how they pull these numbers out of their ...........
“Date back roughly 1.8 million years.” Nonsense.
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