Posted on 11/01/2003 8:45:22 AM PST by blam
Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site.
Image: GOURAM TSIBAKHASHVILI (fossils); CHRISTIAN SIDOR (New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Image: EDWARD BELL AFRICAN EXODUS
Hominids on the move: the Dmanisi finds establish that humans left Africa early--before 1.75 million years ago. Colonization of East Asia occurred by 1.1 million years ago, but hominids do not appear to have reached western Europe until far later. Perhaps carnivore competitors or inhospitable climate hindered early settling in that region.
Remarkably, hominids thought by certain evolutionist scientists to be 7 million years old resemble certain modern day entertainers.
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This is a silly statement on a number of levels. For one thing, there are monkeys and apes all over the world. How did primates get so dispersed if they didn't range far and wide?
Second, why limit it to primates? LOTS of animals range far and wide. Why shouldn't humans have done that, too?
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You found it, thanks. This is a significant find.
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Amazing, isn't it, that PreColumbian humans entered the Americas, just once, via an overland route that afterward ceased to exist, in a group numbering no more than 70, and in a hundred years or so covered both continents from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a population of millions; and yet it took 900,000 years to reach Italy from the Caucasus? ;')
Seeing that my specialty is stupid questions, let me pickle off another one:
“Amazing, isn’t it, that PreColumbian humans entered the Americas, just once, via an overland route that afterward ceased to exist, in a group numbering no more than 70, and in a hundred years or so covered both continents from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a population of millions”
Does that seem likely to everybody else?
“...and yet it took 900,000 years to reach Italy from the Caucasus?”
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