Co-existed until they didn't.
Posted on 05/09/2017 7:36:09 AM PDT by shove_it
KROMDRAAI, South Africa (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled the first evidence on Tuesday that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to already be extinct on the continent at that time.
The findings, published in three papers in the journal "eLife", raise fresh questions about human evolution, including the prospect that behaviours previously attributed to humans may have been developed by hominin precursors of Homo sapiens.
Hominins are an extinct group of the same genus as humans, the only surviving members of that category today. Man's nearest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, are further removed from Homo sapiens biologically than hominins are.
The species in question is Homo naledi, named in 2015 after a rich cache of its fossils was unearthed near Sterkfontein and Swartkrans in South Africa.
These treasure troves, some 50 km (30 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, have yielded pieces of the puzzle of human evolution for decades...
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I studied some anthropology in college and there was a split of homo sapien at one point. The split of homo erectus sapien sapien and Paranthropus has already been determined. Paranthropus was closer to what we understgand as a description of a gorilla at between 4 and 5 feet tall and was a hunter of animals for food. Sapien sapien was tree dweller and came out at night to feed as a vegetarian and other very small things. Both used tools and intermingled. Paranthropus lasted over a million years until food sources changed and it couldn’t adapt. Sapien is what we have evolved into today.
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Development of "races" was driven by geographic separation and only happened after H. Sapiens had left Africa. H. Erectus wasn't geographically dispersed, so likely had no races.
We still do that today here in the USA and Europe.
I bet that Al Sharp-tone has this thread pulled in
5-4-3-2-1 !!
If you concede that the stars in the sky are all Suns like ours and that there are then billions of Suns...they’re out there somewhere.
Meh, “homo naledi” has a standard primate skull (small brain), standard primate hips (non bipedal), standard primate hands (non tool using)... in other words it was a monkey, not an “early human”.
There’s also no evidence they practiced burial. They just found a bunch of their bones in a cave (not buried).
Democrats have been around almost as long as cockroaches, and they're nearly just as difficult to get rid of.
Co-existed until they didn't.
“H. Erectus wasn’t geographically dispersed, so likely had no races.”
They were dispersed throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Only if you assume spontaneous generation of life from non-life, which is not an established or observed phenomenon.
Hominin, so that is what Hillary is, ... gigle gigle
Yup, you're right. My understanding was incorrect. BUT....since they "were" geographically dispersed, their species probably had "races" as well.
Can you prove they are 300,000 years old?
I think I've seen this dude around the neighborhood.
Ping to #54
A few of them are serving on the Chicago City Council and in Congress, only far less intelligent than that fella. I doubt he put up with dumb $hit.
I think I’ve seen this dude around the neighborhood.
isn’t that Willie McGee, who used to play baseball for St. Louis...?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Lord, I could go on for days...
I take a different view of the apparent lack of intelligent life in the universe. (The jury is still out on us).
I think that to become an advanced civilization, the group intelligence evolves to a point where they can scrape by - and create powerful weapons so one group dominates.
Once there, the evolutionary forces no longer exist to lead to the intelligence to successfully manage those weapons and they wind up with Democrats and ultimate extinction.
You’re not alone with your view. But I’m a long term optimist. Humans and life in general have survived many catastrophic events.
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