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Tiny Brains of Extinct Human Relative Had Complex Features
N Y Times ^
Posted on 05/14/2018 10:49:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In 2013 scientists excavating a cave in South Africa found remains of Homo naledi, an extinct hominin now thought to have lived 236,000 to 335,000 years ago. Based on the cranial remains, the researchers concluded it had a small brain only about the size of an orange or your fist. Recently, they took another look at the skull fragments and found imprints left behind by the brain. The impressions suggest that despite its tiny size, Homo naledis brain shared a similar shape and structure with that of modern human brains, which are three times as large.
Weve now seen that you can package the complexity of a large brain in a tiny packet, said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at Wits University in South Africa and an author of the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Since its remains were first retrieved, Homo naledi has puzzled scientists. From head to toe the ancient hominin displays a medley of primitive, apelike features and more advanced, humanlike characteristics.
Its this mosaic that is unlike anything we have seen or expected, said Dr. Berger who first discovered Homo naledi in the Dinaledi Chamber in South Africas Rising Star cave system.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: brains; cavesystem; dinaledichamber; godsgravesglyphs; homofloriensis; homonaledi; risingstar; southafrica
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posted on
05/14/2018 10:49:28 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Based on the cranial remains, the researchers concluded it had a small brain only about the size of an orange or your fist. Hmmm. Sounds like NY Times reporters. 😂👍
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:04:50 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Mark17
But it says the brain had complex features.
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:11:27 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: TigersEye
But it says the brain had complex features.Oh yes, you are right. Complex features, definitely rules out NY Times reporters. I still think the size applies, just not the features. 😆😁
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:17:58 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: TigersEye
Probably smarter than democRATs today.
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:18:17 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Mark17; MtnClimber
I think liberal’s brains are definitely featureless. :)
Kind of dry and smelly too.
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:23:34 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: MtnClimber
Homo Nadeli (D-San Francisco) ?
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:29:50 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
To: BenLurkin
Its an ape, not an evolutionary link. Of course its still possible they are relared to democrats.
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:31:42 PM PDT
by
robel
To: BenLurkin
Brain power I always thought was more dependent on the amount of surface area of a given brain. More convolutions = more surface area.
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05/14/2018 11:43:41 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/14/2018 11:46:40 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: ETL
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posted on
05/15/2018 12:03:44 AM PDT
by
GraceG
("Q is dead, been dead a for a while...")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/15/2018 12:27:11 AM PDT
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
To: GraceG
At your link, I notice from the CT scan of "Man With Tiny Brain" that both of the nearly-empty hemispheres of his brain are shaped like capital-D's in the view from above. Is this perhaps significant? ---
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posted on
05/15/2018 12:38:57 AM PDT
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
To: BenLurkin
Ironic that this post immediately follows an FR post from a few minutes earlier entitled, "Seattle City Council votes 9-0 for scaled-down head tax on large employers"
So, Seattle is taxing "scaled-down head"s.
Apparently they have no choice but to tax those types of people, since they've long ago driven away all the conservatives.
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posted on
05/15/2018 12:47:22 AM PDT
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Size matters? No, it's how you use it.
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
"Is this perhaps significant?"
Not really. He was described as a "civil servant."
;-)
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posted on
05/15/2018 2:13:37 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Mark17
But first came Adam & Eve.....
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posted on
05/15/2018 3:27:08 AM PDT
by
LiveFreeOrDie2001
( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
But first came Adam & Eve..... Yes, they did, and I have a feeling they were possibly the most brilliant people God ever created, since I think they were originally created to live forever. It just didnt work out that way.
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posted on
05/15/2018 4:02:22 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: BenLurkin
They found that “Must vote Democrat” was written on the walls of the government housing caves these small brain people lived in.
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posted on
05/15/2018 5:06:56 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: BenLurkin
“Based on the cranial remains, the researchers concluded it had a small brain only about the size of an orange or your fist.”
But they are not extinct...they are called Homo Democrats.
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posted on
05/15/2018 6:38:58 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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