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Fossil Found In Asia Could Be A New Species Of Human
BI - Livescience ^ | 1-28-2015 | Charles Q. Choi

Posted on 01/28/2015 10:26:09 AM PST by blam

Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience
January 27, 2015

An ancient human fossil discovered from the seafloor near Taiwan reveals that a primitive group of humans, potentially an unknown species, once lived in Asia, researchers say.

These findings suggest that multiple lineages of extinct humans may have coexisted in Asia before the arrival of modern humans in the region about 40,000 years ago, the scientists added.

Although modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the only surviving human lineage, others once walked the globe. Extinct human lineages once found in Asia include Neanderthals, the closest extinct relatives of modern humans; Denisovans, whose genetic legacy may extend from Siberia to the Pacific islands of Oceania; Homo erectus, the most likely ancestors to modern humans; and the hobbitlike Homo floresiensis, who lived in Indonesia. These all are hominins — the group of species consisting of humans and all their relatives after the split from the chimpanzee lineage. [The 10 Biggest Mysteries of the First Humans]

Now, scientists have revealed the first ancient human fossil — a nearly complete right side of a lower jaw with primitive-looking teeth — to be found in Taiwan.

The fossil was dredged by a fishing net from the seafloor about 200 to 400 feet (60 to 120 meters) below the surface of the Penghu Channel, located about 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) off the western coast of Taiwan. The channel was part of the Asian mainland during the last ice age, when sea levels were lower.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; denisovans; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; homoerectus; homofloresiensis; humans; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; primates
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1 posted on 01/28/2015 10:26:09 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 01/28/2015 10:26:34 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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3 posted on 01/28/2015 10:27:34 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: blam

Popcorn!


4 posted on 01/28/2015 10:27:41 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: blam

What does that map mean ?


5 posted on 01/28/2015 10:28:40 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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Fossil Found In Asia Could Be A New Species Of Human
BONES? Is the dating accurate?... degenarative humans have been bones recently...

If you want to call it human...
6 posted on 01/28/2015 10:30:51 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: blam

I think that in the future, archeologists will dig up a couple of the bones of those old drooling brothers with severe mental retardation, and build an entire human lineage off them.
Wouldn’t that be great! A whole new world built off 1 or 2 small fossils.
In other words, whatever.


7 posted on 01/28/2015 10:31:30 AM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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"What does that map mean ?"

It's what the world looked like during the Ice Age when there was less water in the world's oceans.

8 posted on 01/28/2015 10:33:02 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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The channel was part of the Asian mainland during the last ice age, when sea levels were lower.

SEE!

The Algerians were right!

Global Warming killed this guy 40,000 years ago!

9 posted on 01/28/2015 10:33:55 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: blam

The Piltdown Man rides again!


10 posted on 01/28/2015 10:34:16 AM PST by afsnco
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Sorry, that was supposed to be Algorians .


11 posted on 01/28/2015 10:34:28 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Get Reiner Protsch von Zieten to investigate!


13 posted on 01/28/2015 10:37:22 AM PST by struggle
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If it’s a fossil, it’s more likely to be an OLD species of human.


14 posted on 01/28/2015 10:38:09 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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Sorry, that was supposed to be Algorians

Some of us guessed that, though if Algeria were Algoria, it would be fairly close to Chad, which hangs right in the middle of north Africa...

15 posted on 01/28/2015 10:39:11 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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16 posted on 01/28/2015 10:41:00 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago

How about, "sometime in the past?"

17 posted on 01/28/2015 10:41:36 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: blam

Early reports are these humanoids were concerned about global warming due to their cooking fires so they relied on solar power to cook their meals and thereby save the planet.


18 posted on 01/28/2015 10:46:04 AM PST by Raycpa
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Eden in the East
19 posted on 01/28/2015 10:46:09 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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right side of a lower jaw with primitive-looking teeth

The result of British Dentistry??


20 posted on 01/28/2015 10:46:52 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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