Little Foot’s fossil bones [Credit: Patrick Landmann/Science Photo Library]
Posted on 12/12/2018 9:52:39 AM PST by ETL
Little Foot’s fossil bones [Credit: Patrick Landmann/Science Photo Library]
Oh how this stuff changes quickly.
When I took anthropology in the 90’s, they were saying that early pre-humans split off from three dwellers and lived in the savanahs and stepps and needed to stand to see farther. Now they are saying standing started in trees, which evokes monkeys more than apes.
Also, back then (unless my memory fails me) Australopithecus was in another fork, and not an ancenstor to humans.
Publish or perish is why they keep coming out with such laughable garbage.
“She would have lived primarily on forest fruits and leaves.”
She was a cheap date.
“Waiter! Bring the lady a bowl of leaves.....French leaves if you have them.”
would you care for the house lice, or prefer to groom them off of her yourself?
“However, it has given scientists a far greater understanding of how our species evolved.”
Romans 1:21-23 New International Version (NIV)
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles
“...found in a very deep cavern...”
I wasn’t aware that there were many trees in caverns....
I know I know I’m just being facetious
I've seen this a few times... I found it interesting and enjoyable:
A homo-sapiens/neanderthal love story (Ao! Last Neanderthal)
I recall, from the early 80s, being taught that Australpithicus was a direct ancestor.
All I know is that, going by the last time I climbed a tree, the habit of walking at all in the trees was lost a long time ago.
Not if you actually read the article.
It says this specimen is a transitional form that lived in a mixed forest and savanah environment.
We stayed in the trees, with their citrus goodies, too long. We lost from underuse the ability to make our own vitamin C.
Shoot, even my dog makes his own C, but not me.
If science were locked down and never-changing, it would be worthless. It wouldn’t be science, it would be religion.
Wouldn’t it have been somewhat easier to stand upright and learn to walk on sidewalks? Doing that in trees must have been a real challenge. Lucy had to be a Democrat.
You are sure these are not stills from the old movie THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON? That “scientist” sure looks like Lionel Jeffries.
All I have to say about this nonsense is that learned or acquired traits are not inherited. Behavior does not alter or create Genes. The Genes for a human pelvis and foot had to be there already, before they could, over time, becomes more prevalent in the population.
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