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An Incredible New Skull Is Forcing Us To Rethink The Evolution Of Early Humans
BI ^ | 10-17-2013 | Dina Spector

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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KEYWORDS: dmanisi; earlyhumans; georgia; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; homoerectus; homoerectusgeorgicus; oldowan; origin; origins; paleontology; republicofgeorgia; skeletons
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To: blam; Oldeconomybuyer; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...

Thanks blam.

61 posted on 10/17/2013 4:45:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: OldNavyVet

BTW, “Lucy” was a concocted artifact, with missing bones reconstructed out of someone’s imagination and then pointed to as “evidence.”


62 posted on 10/17/2013 4:50:30 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Homer1

It was just reported that Oregon now recognizes marriages between two Homo Liberalis.


63 posted on 10/17/2013 5:10:51 PM PDT by Gator113 (Ted Cruz is settled law.)
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To: ohiobushman

Dang, beat me to it.


64 posted on 10/17/2013 5:23:46 PM PDT by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: blam

Everyone may want to check out this.

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Click on link.

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book with dvds on Roth website


65 posted on 10/17/2013 5:33:31 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: ohiobushman

If we had a photo of the creature that ‘owned’ this skull it would look like a cross between the Clintons, the Obamas, and Neandrathals. Neandrathals, all...

I could expant this further...Jessie, Al, Maxine(Waters), John (Conyers)...add Eric (Holder) to this list...

Genetically equivalent...small brain, big mouth...

Note that the first seven or eight black members of Congress were all Republicans. They are not a part of this analogy...and they represented the people...all of us...


66 posted on 10/17/2013 5:42:55 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Maudeen

Sid Roth....

I love to watch SID ROTH. It’s Supernatural!


67 posted on 10/17/2013 5:54:29 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: cuban leaf

“Yeah, what we used to call the USSR is the source of all sorts of nutty stuff like that.”

A Harvard scientist has started searching for the woman, who would agree to give birth to a Neanderthal child. The woman will be used to test the abilities of modern science to clone a caveman.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/22-01-2013/123546-neanderthal_child-0/


68 posted on 10/17/2013 6:36:27 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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Science discovers the World's first scientist.

69 posted on 10/17/2013 6:39:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe it’s a 1.8 million year old bigfoot...kinda fits the description!


70 posted on 10/17/2013 8:03:26 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: ohiobushman

John Kerry?


71 posted on 10/17/2013 11:34:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: Mechanicos

Even better Moses knew light existed before the creation of the sun moon and stars. It took science almost 6000 years to catch up and measure the cosmic background radiation.....


72 posted on 10/17/2013 11:46:47 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Ah, but what about the discovery of many elongated skulls in many diverse locations of the world. (See King Tut’s father)

Ancient Aliens Mystery of the Elongated Skulls - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtc_HyH8RH0

And this brief paper from the archeology department of MSU has some interesting pictures.
Mysterious Skulls Found Around the World | Great Discoveries in Archaeology
http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp264-ss13/2013/04/25/mysterious-skulls-found-around-the-world/


73 posted on 10/19/2013 10:56:34 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Thanks wb.


74 posted on 10/19/2013 12:03:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: wildbill
King Tut and half of European men share DNA
75 posted on 10/19/2013 1:35:08 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

I wonder what the DNA was for Dynasty 0.


76 posted on 10/19/2013 2:05:41 PM PDT by Little Bill (A)
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To: Mechanicos
But this isn't a slender assortment of bone fragments and the odd tooth.
77 posted on 10/20/2013 11:26:11 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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