Or where they went. "Humans" have not lived in CA for the past 200,000 years, and we all know this. Anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa about 125,000- 150,000 years ago. I find this story very hard to believe. It sounds like another Piltdown Man hoax. If this is true, EVERY theory of human evolution is out the window.
It was intelligent lifeforms from another planet on a camping trip.
There were many species of humans 3-4 different types living at the same time.
I expect these Calico people were Homo-Erectus.
It is not that human evolution is wrong.
It is that it is on a much longer scale than imagined.
And not in the way that it is imagined.
Oh. I guess it is unimaginably wrong.
"If this is true, EVERY theory of human evolution is out the window."
That doesn't follow, not at all. The only consequence of this finding (which is only the first of many) is that the isolationist political nonsense that has been infecting the study of PreColumbian humans in the Americas just got a tooth knocked out and a cut over the eye.
Tools are found all over the world. Erectus (or someone) left tools on an island (and it has been an island for millions of years, even during the large-scale glaciations) 800,000 years ago.
Evolution is a soft science, a theory, still in its research phase. It is currently based on guesswork and opinions, and even the criteria for the dating methods they use are based on opinion. Yet, they treat their theory like an actual belief system.
If you dated the Darwinists according to the sediment on their brains they'd all be a million years old.
So they were humans who were not quite "anatomically modern". It's hardly the big problem you make it out to be:
I find this story very hard to believe. It sounds like another Piltdown Man hoax. If this is true, EVERY theory of human evolution is out the window.
Complete nonsense. It's perfectly compatible with the *current* theory of human evolution.
The only changes would be to theories of human *migration* (i.e., when exactly humans arrived at particular locations).
And even so, it might just be a minor adjustment, not a major revision. If a small wave of humans arrived in the California area that far back, but couldn't make a go of it and died off, then later the major human migration which populated the American continents arrived at the time currently described in the history books, it wouldn't be a big change, just a footnote.
Unless you count Mexicans.
We do not know this. We only surmise on the base of scant evidence, or rather lack of evidence.