RE-CONSTRUCTION OF HOMO NALEDI
Just as likely a place their contemporaries placed the freaks from inbreeding. My guess, at this point, is just as good as theirs. LOL!
This is the guy with the credit for finding evacuating and describing these fossils. As such, he gets the first shot at proposing the name and placing in a genus. Now, all of the rest get to throw darts at him. Mostly, they are jealous that they didn’t make the discovery, but his opinion will have to withstand considerable criticism over the next few years. Probably none of these first complainers have even seen the fossils except on the PBS NOVA program.
I’m guessing that his description and name will stand, but we’ll see.
[[Deep inside a cave 30 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa, a tight crevasse guards the passageway to what was, until recently, the grave of at least 15 human-like individuals.]]
Deep inside a cave 30 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa, a tight crevasse guards the passageway to what was, until recently, the grave of at least 15 monkeys who fell down the crevice and could not get back out.. Then after their discovery, ‘scientists’ concocted wild but false information, claiming for instance that the ‘feet are remarkably human-like’ when infact they are NOT- the arches in the feet are nothing like human arches- but that didn’t stop the ‘scientists’ from making the false claim and hyping the lie hoping that the news media would pick up o n the story and inflate it even more with even bigger lies about the supposed ‘human-like features’ of this monkey- - which of course they did”
There- fixed the opening line
[[Homo naledi’s shoulder joints and curved finger bones are typical of tree-swinging apes. Its flared hips are typical of australopithecine apes. The lower ribcage widens just like the ribcage of australopithecine apes. And while Homo naledi reportedly has a “generally humanlike ankle and foot” in that the shapes of some of the foot bones could be consistent with an arched foot, this is described in the study as a lower arch with a different orientation than typical of the modern human foot.2
The study describing Homo naledi, published in the journal eLife, indicates the wrist, hands, and thumbs were proportioned in such a way to be able to manipulate tools. (As we noted recently, another team of scientists surveying australopithecine hands confirmed that although australopithecines have longer thumbs than living apes, their finger-thumb proportions resemble neither human nor chimpanzee hands. See “Are Human Hands More Primitive Than Chimps’?” to explore this point further.)]]
https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/homo-naledi-new-species-human-ancestor/
The scientists admit they don’t know the fossils’ age: The bones were not in a sediment layer that could be dated, and the researchers have not yet performed radiocarbon dating, which will damage the bones. Based on their interpretation of the evolutionary tree, they believe the fossils to be 2.5 million years old or more.
From Wikipedia:
Radiocarbon dating is generally limited to dating samples no more than 50,000 years old, as samples older than that have insufficient 14 C to be measurable. Older dates have been obtained by using special sample preparation techniques, large samples, and very long measurement times. These techniques can allow dates up to 60,000 and in some cases up to 75,000 years before the present to be measured.
Thus - what the author of the article fails to recognize, or outright contradicts - radiocarbon dating would be useless in dating these fossils.
Regards,
Hmmm....I wonder, what would the skeleton’s of these two guys reveal about their “species”:
http://www.media4news.com/tallest-and-shortest-men-in-the-world-met-together-in-london/
I don’t think there is a clear cut division in many cases between these protohumans.