Peking Man's Skullcap On Display In China

IOL ^ | 9-22-2003

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Peking Man's skullcap on display in China

September 22 2003 at 06:39AM

Beijing - A crucial skull fragment belonging to the famous 500 000-year-old Peking Man is being shown to the public for the first time ever, Chinese state media said on Monday.

The priceless bone fragment is on display at a museum 48km south-west of Beijing, near the place where Peking Man was first discovered almost a century ago, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Although the bone is little more than the size of a palm and shows only the front part of an individual's skull, it is one of the best clues scientists have to the prehistoric hominid.

The scarcity of evidence is partly due to the fact that five skullcaps belonging to Peking Man were lost under mysterious circumstances during World War 2 and have never been recovered.

The fragment that the public can now get a glimpse at was unearthed in 1966 and forms a nearly complete skull when combined with other fragments, which are not part of the current display.

Over the past decades, Chinese archeologists have made thousands of finds near the Peking Man site, not just of the hominid itself, but also of much younger human habitations.

The discovery of Peking Man was one of the most decisive steps in the scientific quest to trace man's prehistoric development from the apes. - Sapa-AFP

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ping.

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Peking Man

[CalvaryJohn]

Ahh, the life of an evolutionist: scant evidence combined with presuppositions and dizzying leaps of logic.

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Although the bone is little more than the size of a palm and shows only the front part of an individual's skull, it is one of the best clues scientists have to the prehistoric hominid.

Either that or it's just an old bone.

[VadeRetro]

Peking Man, AKA latter-day Homo erectus.

[VadeRetro]

From your T.O. link:

Most creationists have considered the Peking Man fossils to be those of apes, or, even more improbably, monkeys, but recently the view of Lubenow that they were humans has been gaining ground.

It's not allowed to be anything in-between, of course, but it can jump back and forth from the "ape" bin to the "human" bin as often as needed.

[VadeRetro]

Peking Man ping!

[ASA Vet]

scientific quest to trace man's prehistoric development from the apes.

BS!
Is an agenda the reason for such a mis-statement?

[RightWhale]

scientific quest to trace man's prehistoric development from the apes.

"They" still do this all the time. Got to wonder why, is it just intellectual laziness or plain ignorance, who knows. The apes are fully evolved, man is fully evolved. Man did not come from the apes, but both may have come from a common ancestor, although the branching needn't have been at the same point on the tree. In any case, the branching points are never going to be seen clearly, there simply isn't a lot of evidence to be found because in most case the body of a deceased organism gets eaten by something or other or decays including the bones.

[joesnuffy]

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Thats funny he dont look Jewish...

[cryptical]

Ahh, the life of an evolutionist: scant evidence combined with presuppositions and dizzying leaps of logic.

Ahh, the life of a creationist: A refusal to recognize any evidence that contradicts a belief that requires no evidence.

Proof precludes faith, if you have proof you don't need faith. (Apologies to Douglas Adams).

[PatrickHenry]

PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]

[ASA Vet]

is it just intellectual laziness or plain ignorance

Neither, it's deliberate spin by supernaturalist liberals.

[ruoflaw]

Thanks!

[js1138]

What on earth do you mean by "fully evolved"?

[js1138]

More specifically, what possible criteria would you use to describe something as less than fully evolved?

[mtbopfuyn]

The fragment that the public can now get a glimpse at was unearthed in 1966 and forms a nearly complete skull when combined with other fragments, which are not part of the current display.

So, are those "other fragments" just thrown in for fun or were they found together? From what I understand, there is no one complete skull but merely various bits and pieces of artifacts found throughout the decades in that general area. Too many times these theories are presented as known facts.

[RightWhale]

Fully evolved would be equivalent to saying in it's modern form.

[js1138]

What is so special about the current form of anything that would justify the term "fully evolved"?