See the face of your 100,000-year-old ancestor

The Jerusalem Post ^ | By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman September 19, 2019 20:32

[PIF]

Whatever, there are legitimate objects made by some one over 2 billion years old.

[PA Engineer]

The mitochondria issue has had me stumped for some time. Pre-mitochondria may be it. I don’t know.

[SunkenCiv]

Here are the other GGG topics introduced the past couple of weeks.

• Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization
• This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from 'Russian Atlantis' Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case
• Chinese 'Scholars': English Language Is a 'Dialect' of Mandarin
• List of victims of the 9/11 attacks - Lest we forget
• 2,600 Year-Old Seal With Biblical Name Discovered
• New artifacts suggest first people arrived in North America earlier than previously thought

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. I'm going to use this as the weekly digest ping, a day or so early.

• for Archaic DNA matches with your own raw DNA file: Genetic Genealogy Tools

[a fool in paradise]

Wasn’t this claymation dude in an early Will Vinton short?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzZP47nT6Hc

jump to 4:15 mark

[txnativegop]

ask yourself this:

You a flint or obsidian spear point attached to a 3 to 6 foot tree limb smoothed out with the flint or obsidian attached only with dried rawhide or sinew, you look up and you are facing a direwolf 2 to 3 feet at the shoulder or a short-faced bear 6 feet at the shoulder. Do you think it possible or even probably that human hunters so armed would take casualties during such encounters?

[null and void]

Lots of modern plants will show an anomalously old carbon 14 date. Carbon 14 in generated in the upper atmosphere, at roughly the same rate, and decays at a known rate. Plants that grow near freeways, factories, and coal or natural gas fired power plants get a goodly fraction of their CO₂ from fossil fuels, where the carbon 14 has long since decayed below detectable levels. This skews the reported date quite a bit.

Even with pristine samples the carbon 14 levels are too low to accurately measure anything older than about 50,000 years.

[Rifleman]

For the same reason that your grandma is your ancestor even though she is dead.

[wildbill]

How quickly WE FORGET!Just a few short years ago this topic would have created a race to see who could post a picture of Helen Thomas.

Now there are probably newbies asking, Who is Helen Thomas?

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Never mind that, who is Gloria Mundi? And why is she sick on public transportation?

[SunkenCiv]

LOL! I'd post my HT as Sphinx pic, but I haven't uploaded it to the new free graphics cloud since Tinypic croaked.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Paging Laz.....yY or ney?

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[SIDENET]

I’d hit that. She’s Hawt!

After a couple of drinks, I'd be like "GAME ON".

[gleeaikin]

Of course our ancestors figured out how to protect themselves from wolves and bears. Otherwise we wouldn’t be here today. Also there were apparently cave bear cults, and their skulls were found in ritual positions in the French caves from 25,000 and older, so the bears were respected but definitely killable.

[gleeaikin]

Of course we are still evolving. Six or more thousand years ago, horse people of central Asia seemed to have evolved the capacity to digest milk into adult years. In a mobile herding culture this was a winter life saver. Then they migrated/conquered? into Europe and soon most future Europeans could also digest milk as adults because it provided a survival advantage during the winter. Also as dark skinned people migrated north into Europe, they either or both bred with Neanderthals or mutated fairer skin. This enabled them to produce more Vitamin D in their skin and improved the wideness of female hips and successful live births. We have not stopped evolving. New evolved capabilities may not show up unless there is stress or changing living conditions for people to be aware that they have occurred.

[COBOL2Java]

The population has grown so fast the last few centuries because 5 out of 7 children no longer die before the age of 6.

Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children, only 10 survived through to adulthood:

1. Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708 – 1774)
2. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784)
3 & 4. Johann Christoph Bach and Maria Sophia Bach (Born and died in 1713)
5. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)
6. Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715 - 1739)
7. Leopold Augustus Bach (1718 - 1719)
8. Christina Sophia Henrietta (1723 - 1726)
9. Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724 - 1763)
10. Christian Gottlieb Bach (1725 - 1728)
11. Elisabeth Juliana Friederica (1726 - 1781)
12. Ernestus Andreas Bach (Born and died in 1727)
13. Regina Johanna Bach (1728 - 1733)
14. Christiana Benedicta Louise (Born and died in 1730)
15. Christiana Dorothea Bach (1731 - 1732)
16. Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795)
17. Johann August Abraham Bach (Born and died in 1733)
18. Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782)
19. Johanna Carolina Bach (1737 - 1781)
20. Regina Susanna Bach (1742 - 1809)