Posted on 05/22/2017 10:25:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The lineage of humans and apes possibly split at a point several hundred thousand years earlier than currently assumed — and in the eastern Mediterranean rather than sub-Saharan Africa, a German research team claim.
After studying the only two fossils found that belong to the hominid Graecopithecus freybergi, researchers at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) in Tübingen came to the remarkable conclusion announced on Monday, and set to be published in the PLOS One magazine.
Hominids include humans and our ancestors, plus apes and their predecessors.
Scientists have still to definitively prove when the lineage of humans and apes split. But current established theories suggest that the ancestors of chimpanzees — our closest cousins — and our own predecessors split from one another in Africa at some point between five million and seven million years ago.
But the team led by Madelaine Böhme have now placed a big question mark over this theory, after examining a jaw bone found in Greece and a tooth from Bulgaria, both belonging to the Graecopithecus freybergi.
After detailed study, the researchers believe that the Graecopithecus freybergi is a previously unknown ancestor of humans. Researchers found that the root of the tooth is largely melded, a characteristic of humans and their predecessors, but not of apes, who have split roots. …
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Graecopithecus is a genus separate from the genus Homo, and its members are thus not humans - but rather only Hominids (i.e., members of the Family Hominidae, which includes the genera Homo, Pan, etc.).
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So where do we place Pelosi, Schumer, Reid and Maxine Waters, Homo Defective?
Humans originated in Eurasia. Apes originated in Africa.
In the dumpster labeled “G”.
And Australian aborigines appear to be a third subspecies.
FINALLY we can stop this “Lucy” bullcrap. We honkies don’t come from her.
No Maxine is a Homo paranoiis species
Sounds like you’re describing/categorizing most Democrats.
First rolling back Obama’s legacy, now this.
Has a human-like tooth, they say.
Our teeth are so pathetic as compared to the canines and incisors of chimpanzees, we had to evolve knives. And, our fingernails so pathetic as claws, we had to evolve forks.
I realize some of you believe in inventionism. But, I’m trying to be scientific.
Among the Hotentots...
When I do software testing, I need a variety of test cases, and sufficient quantity of test runs. Then I come to a conclusion that there is an X% chance that the experience in production will be consistent with the requirements.
Considering the amount of test data, test cases and test runs (or their equivalent) there is way to make a prediction above 50%, the flip of a coin, on the origin of man, or on climate change, or on a myriad of topics.
Did humans originate in Africa or Turkey? Flip a coin.
Will there be a global warming trend? Flip a coin.
Darwinistic Evolution.
They still haven't proven Evolution, and they're concerned with "proving" the "split between man and ape?"
Good God, man.
Who this is still puzzles me. Maybe they're related to these people:
Hmm, what could we deduce from that?
No wonder they killed Harambe, he was about to expose the truth.
Which coins, in that case? Seems like the answers to those questions are on neither side.
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