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What makes us human? The unfortunate 'rat people' of Pakistan could provide the answer.
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| August 1, 2006
| by Armand Leroi
Posted on 07/31/2006 6:59:25 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
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posted on
08/01/2006 1:27:41 PM PDT
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: GOPJ
No fossil record - all those generations and NO FOSSIL record. Zip, nada, zero follil evidence exist anywhere -- almost makes a person doubt Darwin... All these fossils and thousands more. Almost makes a person doubt you.
Figure 1.4.4. Fossil hominid skulls. Some of the figures have been modified for ease of comparison (only left-right mirroring or removal of a jawbone). (Images © 2000 Smithsonian Institution.)
(A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
(B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
(C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
(D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
(E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
(F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
(G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
(H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
(I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 y
(J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
(K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
(L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
(M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
(N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern
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posted on
08/01/2006 2:29:04 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: aculeus
To: WOSG
might get us back to believing that IQ is genetic, eh? Believed it before The Bell Curve and believe it still...
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posted on
08/01/2006 2:58:01 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: Coyoteman
In the last three million or so years, the human brain has approximately trebled in size. This change, remarkable in its extent and speed, must have been caused by mutations - advantageous mutations - that swept through the populations of our ancestors as they wandered, generation after generation, across the African veldt.That such mutations must exist has long been obvious. The problem has been how to find them. I was commenting on the article - it says "such mutations must exist ... the problem has been how to find them".
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posted on
08/01/2006 3:02:11 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: aculeus
I wonder if this is where they got the idea that they can come back as rats. (Just kidding). Pretty sad. India is such a lost, lost place.
To: GOPJ
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posted on
08/01/2006 3:13:24 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
To: Coyoteman
Wa! wa! wah!
You're just jealous that she likes PH better.
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posted on
08/01/2006 4:14:57 PM PDT
by
b_sharp
(Why bother with a tagline? Even they eventually wear out! (Second Law of Taglines))
To: RobbyS
"What makes us human is that we have human parents --and a soul. Is it so hard to admit that these are merely unfortunate souls?" Random 'soul'ature?
Who'd a guessed.
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posted on
08/01/2006 4:18:48 PM PDT
by
b_sharp
(Why bother with a tagline? Even they eventually wear out! (Second Law of Taglines))
To: WOSG
"might get us back to believing that IQ is genetic, eh?" IQ is to a certain extent genetic. It it also to a certain extent environmental. Its plasticity, the ability to be modified by the environment, is genetic in nature.
It is still an awful poor indicator of 'race' which is itself poorly defined.
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posted on
08/01/2006 4:28:52 PM PDT
by
b_sharp
(Why bother with a tagline? Even they eventually wear out! (Second Law of Taglines))
To: aculeus
Inbreeding...
Muslim cultures have a high rate of birth defects .
1200 years of marrying your cousin will do it.
51
posted on
08/01/2006 4:49:26 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: Paved Paradise
Pretty sad. India is such a lost, lost place.Perhaps so, but this article is about Pakistan.
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:22:50 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: b_sharp
The question of soul really gets into the question of what it means to be human. Not the same as little dots on a piece of paper. Without a decoder, simply dots.
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posted on
08/01/2006 8:40:04 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: aculeus
There are a lot of Muslims in India.
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posted on
08/01/2006 8:40:56 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: aculeus
Same place in the sense of their pagan beliefs. I lump Pak & India together because culturally and religiously there is no significant difference.
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