Posted on 10/17/2015 9:09:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
Forty-seven smooth teeth dug out of a cave in southern China reveal that Homo sapiens may have arrived there 80,000 years ago...The findings, published this week in the journal Nature, may compel researchers to reconsider their theories about human migrations out of Africa.
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“Forty-seven smooth teeth dug out of a cave in southern China reveal that Homo sapiens may have arrived there 80,000 years ago...The findings, published this week in the journal Nature, may compel researchers to reconsider their theories about human migrations out of Africa."
At least 80,000 years meets with other evidence including Australia finds. It beats the super volcano Toba and agrees wit findings beneath the ash from that massive explosion.
Either that or they found out where the tooth fairy lives.
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Within the last few years, I do know there have been multiple discoveries in Israel and in the Caucasus countries that may date Homo Sapiens back 100,000 years in those areas.
How many of the likely lived to be ancestors though. Given the Toba event after their arrival.
How is it that Africa is the only place where humans started out at? They just found some bones in a dry area that preserved them. For all we know humans came from Sweden.
That has long been my question too. Just because the oldest bones found (to date) have been in Africa, doesn’t mean that man originated in Africa.
Good question certainly. Toba, was it survivable in the Asian regions, I think yes but there isn’t any definitive proof I am aware of.
Probably the most compelling evidence for “Out of Africa” is the similarity between human DNA and chimpanzee and gorilla DNA.
Gorillas and chimpanzees are found only in southern and central Africa, which is the same place where all of the earliest (150,000 to 200,000 years ago) Homo Sapien fossils are found.
Some scientists believe that an earlier hominid - Homo Erectus (about 2 million years ago) - may have developed in Asia, then migrated to east Africa, then may have evolved into Homo Sapiens.
But most scientists believe that Homo Erectus evolved first in Africa, and then migrated to Asia.
There are some near-human ancestors, like Neanderthals (about 300,000 to 40,000 years ago), who quite clearly did not evolve in Africa.
Neanderthal fossils and tools are only found spread across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
you mean you don’t think the first man and first woman were Adam and Eve?
you mean you don’t think the first man and first woman were Adam and Eve?
I think that third tooth on the left was gay.
You found my teeth pouch! Thanks guys, spilled those suckers somewhere in there a few years ago. Grave robbing, but no gold in them.
Thanks zeestephen.
Genesis clearly suggests Adam and Eve lived in the Mesopotamian Neolithic at the dawn of civilization. That’s where the Tigris and Euphrates are, and where we see farming (Adam & Cain), herding (Abel), and cities (Cain).
Early hominids can shed light on the formation of Adam’s body but I don’t think they are germane to him as a historical person.
“How many of the likely lived to be ancestors though. Given the Toba event after their arrival.”
In “A short history of nearly everything,” by Bill Bryson, he talks about a species that looks like anatomically current man but is extinct. Despite their appearance, nobody alive today is related to them. After the Toba event the total population of humans may not have exceeded a few thousand total for thousands of years. As he said, that’s a long time to recover from a single event.
Next event up, nuclear war, brought to you by President Nobel Peace Prize.
More in-depth information on this find can be found here:
“Next event up, nuclear war, brought to you by President Nobel Peace Prize.”
Unless we get the Yellowstone Surprise first ...
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