Researcher Stephanie Melillo holds the fourth metatarsal of the Burtele partial foot right after its discovery. The team found eight bones from the front half of a right foot. Such hominin fossils are rare, since they are fragile and are often destroyed in the face of carnivores and decay. ][CREDIT: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Photo courtesy: Yohannes Haile-Selassie]
hitherto unknown species = “Send Grant Money !!”
I only gave up treehouses because there aren’t any trees on my property strong enough to support them. Rope ladder maintenance is another consideration . . .
What I’d like to know is how many evolutionary events define the transition from this “pre-human species” to the human species.
And what were the specifics of the genetic mutations forming these evolutionary events?
Some people in Santa Cruz are still living in tree houses.
oh that makes it so much clearer
Looks like a bone from modern day man both in size and structure. I would doubt that this bone was part of a foot with opposable great toes.
Oh hell, I threw those chicken bones down a few months back when I was hiking through Ethiopia. A fellow has to eat something.
Once upon a time, long, long ago..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_anatomy
That's one of Wiki's pages dealing with Neanderthal anatomy. It shows a mockup of a complete Neanderthal skeleton with normal looking feet which are probably just concocted from minimal real evidence as usual, and then an image of a Neanderthal footprint which is presumably real and a caption describing it as from the Natural History Museum in Prague:
THAT is pretty obviously an ape's footprint. You could view that image as an artifact of a human-like Neanderthal having once had a pet gorilla; I view it as an artifact of people looking at something the wrong way.
They probably got tired of falling out of bed in the morning......
