Posted on 08/22/2005 6:43:45 PM PDT by anymouse
I hope our local Arizona Republic newspaper gets the right Georgia this time.
Dear Editor:
It ain't the one with Atlanta!
And this is a newspaper that says it contributes serious editorial thought to the American dialogue.
Yes, God gave you a brain to reason with - might as well use it...
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Fossil Signs of First Human Migration Are FoundIn a discovery with profound implications for the study of early human history, scientists digging in the republic of Georgia have found 1.7-million-year-old fossil human skulls that show clear signs of African ancestry and so may represent the species that first migrated out of Africa... The international discovery team, led by Dr. Leo Gabunia of the Georgia National Academy of Sciences, concluded that the age and skeletal characteristics of the skulls linked them to the early human species Homo ergaster, who lived from 1.9 million to 1.4 million years ago and who some researchers think is the African version of Homo erectus. The specimens were said to bear less resemblance to the typical Asian Homo erectus... The earliest tools of the Acheulean style did not appear in Africa until 1.6 million years ago, and about 100,000 years later outside Africa, in Israel. By contrast, the discovery team reported, the tools found with the Georgian skulls resembled tools found in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania and dated at about 1.8 million years.
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Sounds like we are on the same page.
Luddite ping!
Dual answer:
1. she's got the face for it; and
2. she's a MSMer that FReepers love to . . . intensely dislike.
Homo erectus is thought to have diverged from H. ergaster populations roughly 1.6 million years ago, so if the dating holds up, this find should be an example of ergaster.
On the other hand if they conclude that this is H. habilis; That that'll pretty much end the debate on which was the precursor, rudolfensis or habilis.
I bumped that one too.
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