[decimon]

Via blam.

[decimon]

Welcome wagon ping.

[Sacajaweau]

And he should pick up his Grant Money where???

[Oratam]

Almasty (or yeti) ping?

[mountainlion]

Must have been global warming to cause them to leave, but this sounds like a money making scam, kinda like global warming.

[JimSEA]

Makes lots of sense as Blam has postulated. Now we need to
find ruins under the gulf of Thailand. Most interesting news in a long
time.

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[ClearCase_guy]

I see this stuff as very similar to Global Warming computer models. We don't really understand the data. We like to pretend that we can predict the weather 100 years from now, and we like to predict that we have a deep understanding of genetics. I'm just not convinced. They are just taking a big pile of genetic data and -- Voila~! -- postulating a new kind of hominid.

Nice hypothesis, I suppose. But how will the idea ever be tested? How can this be substantiated in any way?

I see this as little better than stoned college freshmen sitting around saying, "Wow, wouldn't it be cool if ...". But real science should operate at a slightly higher level than that.

[BroJoeK]

[OldNavyVet]

These enigmatic hominids left Africa in a previously unsuspected migration around 1 million years ago

Evidence supporting the Theory of Evolution is everywhere around us.

[Maelstorm]

Why is it a shock? These people claim to be scientists. Basic reason suggests that given the limited preservation of homanid remains it would be ridiculous to assume that the accumulated discoveries of the past 100 years would be all there is.

[John-Irish]

Would this explain the origin of Liberals?

[Captain Steve]

Maybe the most important statement in the article is, ““That number of differences is good evidence for a new hominid because simple variation can’t account for it,” remarks geneticist Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen.”

Again, “simple variation can’t account for it.” That statement is real science.

The more we know about DNA, mutation, variation and the fossil record, the more at a loss we are to explain the origin of mankind. For those who begin with the conclusion that there is no God, they have no other choice than to make things up, be it alien origins or this evidentially unknown “new member of the human evolutionary family.”