Yellowstone surprised me.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Unless we get the Yellowstone Surprise first ...”
When a ship sinks the first warning is often the rats fleeing the ship. I’d think we’d have plenty of warning as the environmentalists all fly their private planes at the same time to better climes. (Incidentally, the clouds from a Yellowstone blast should solve any global warming issue for the next several hundred years.)
Yellowstone surprised me.
If Yellowstone goes, there are no “better climes” ... anywhere ...
That’s amazing. I understood Yellowstone, which I think erupts on average every 600k years, would be big, but not how big in relation to similar events. If I recall, the last Yellowstone blast was 640k years ago.
Because of the way news is presented people really have no sense of scale. For example, a child falls down a well. It’s in the news 24 per day for three days (HUGE RATINGS!) and results in numerous laws to locate and seal old wells. But the principle cause of child endangerment is probably back yard swimming pools; about which the news event would last forty seconds. (Today, a child drowned in the Wilshire neighborhood. Elsewhere, Santa is tracked by NORAD. For that story we go to Brian Jennings at NORAD’s tracking unit in New York. Brian?)
When the news presents something they almost never fit it into an understandable scale or assess a risk.
Just so.
And the reason the “gentle giant” Micharl Brown got the coverage he did.
A giant lie over shadowing the truth of the causes of black youth deaths.
Read my tag line...
Amazon.com drone delivery gone astray.
from the FRchives:The Scars of Evolution:"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan
The discovery of a hoard of ancient human teeth in a Chinese cave has forced scientists to reconsider our species' relations with our closest evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals. The find, revealed in the science journal Nature, shows modern humans must have left their African homeland and reached southern China more than 80,000 years ago.
This unexpectedly early date contrasts with our ancestors' far more recent arrival in Europe -- about 45,000 years ago -- and suggests Homo sapiens was prevented, for some reason, from moving there for tens of thousands of years. Anthropologist María Martinón-Torres, from University College London -- a member of the team that made the discovery -- is confident of the reason. She blames the Neanderthals.
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Re: “you mean you don’t think the first man and first woman were Adam and Eve?”
Unlike most Conservatives, I am not a religious person.
On the other hand, I recognize the necessity of a religious people for sustainable self-government, and I recognize that the legal “authority” for man’s natural and unalienable rights must come from a higher power than man.
How do I live with this obvious contradiction?
Well, mostly I just don’t think about it.
I’ve been voting Republican for 50 years.
And when push comes to shove, I will always line up with the Lutherans, the Evangelicals, and the Orthodox Jews.
Here in Seattle, we think about the Mount Rainier Surprise.
And, the Pacific Plate Subduction Zone Surprise, which is slowly tightening underneath Puget Sound and our barely above sea level city.
And lately, the Kim Jong-un Surprise, since he has apparently miniaturized atomic weapons and developed ICBMs that can hit the USA west coast.
Yes nice surprises! Glad I left ...
Then there is the scenario of the Yellowstone Surprise triggers the Pacific Plate Subduction Zone Surprise which pisses Kim off and he launches the Kim Jong-un Surprise ... move while you are ahead ...
The Huckleberry Ridge Tuff was formed by the first and largest of 3 major Yellowstone eruptions, and was about 2.1 million years ago. Thus, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago was even more immense than the most recent big Yellowstone event 640,000 years ago which formed the Lava Creek Tuff.
The teeth were found under a deposit made 80,000 year ago and could be tens of thousands of years older. I think it is certainly possible that homo sapiens tried to enter western Europe in that period, but it was not until the “white” skin color gene occurred in these Africans that they were able to survive in a cold cloudy environment, unless they ate whole fish like sardines. Without ample Vitamin D, dark skinned people are unable to develop the kind of broad pelvic structure that ensures good childbirth outcomes. I have read elsewhere that this gene did not occur until about 40,000 years ago which is when our successful competition with Neanderthals began. Also, as it became progressively colder after the Toba event, the sea level became ever lower, making the Straits of Gibralter a much less difficult barrier. In fact there were periods when the Mediterranean Sea was much smaller. It is too late for me to spend time searching for dates, so no links for now except this map of the Mediterranean during the Ice Ages.
http://www.mmdtkw.org/Gr0102zIceAgeMediterranean.jpg
This site has a number of interesting articles. The one for Dec. 28th covers Supervolcanoes.
http://historyoftheearthcalendar.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
Thanks for the ping and info,
bkmk
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