[SunkenCiv]

A map of what Australia and Pacific Islands may have looked like during the last ice age.

Image credit: Alamy

[newfreep]

Neanderthals appear to be a closer genetic link to BigFoot than Humans (i.e. Adam & Eve)

[Sacajaweau]

Oh no....they don't all agree.

You know what that means...

More GRANT MONEY.

[PIF]

Excerpt:
“Humans did not arrive in Australia 65,000 years ago, and likely didn’t reach the land down under until around 50,000 years ago, a controversial new paper reports.

“The reasoning behind the finding is that modern humans didn’t mate with Neanderthals until around 50,000 years ago, but Indigenous Australians have a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. So, the first Australians could not have arrived until after humans mated with Neanderthals.

“But we can’t yet rule out archaeological evidence that places humans on the continent much earlier than genetic models do, other experts say.”

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Today’s conventional wisdom is tomorrow’s old wives tales.

[desertfreedom765]

Personally I think that someday they will find that they made it to the Americas. Just haven’t looked enough.

The Bering straight was open many times, not just ~ 20K years ago.

[frithguild]

O'Connell and Allen, though, think that this sort of artwork, intensive seafaring and the creation of complex artifacts are all connected to a shift in human behavior that began around 50,000 years ago, sometimes called the Paleolithic Revolution. In a narrow window of time, they wrote, these early humans "began the process of displacing archaic hominins and occupying diverse environments in Europe and Asia."

Corresponds to the "Eve Theory of Consciousness" - some humans developed the ability for recursive thinking and therefore had an evolutionary advantage.

The collapse of Neanderthal populations followed not long after. Neanderthal DNA in humans in of mitochondrial origin, which points to the question whether humans and Neanderthal were the same species. Only male mules are sterile. Were male human Neanderthal hybrids sterile? Did the Neanderthal population collapse for this reason?

I was looking at this study to elucidate this a bit and was disappointed. Their sample is to small to support the inferences they are making - a turf battle in an academic niche focused on minutae.

[minnesota_bound]

They had 65,000 years to build cities and a civilization but instead it took British convicts to build in a few years. What were the natives doing all these years?

[Hyman Roth]

65,000 year old date? Talk about a cougar.

[Democrat = party of treason]

Goes back to the Bible. God did not say “let us create a creature and call it man”, He said “let us create man in our image”. Sounds like “man” was already a known commodity and the difference being that man as we know him is created in the image of God. A triune being made up of body, soul, and spirit.

So what went on here on this earth between Genesis 1 and 2, only God really knows, but “scientists” dig up parts of it and mistakenly think it has something to do with us. Like the Bible also states, “thinking themselves wise, they became fools”.