[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[realpatriot]

Amazing just what they can deduce from fossil fragments, isn’t it?

They can probably even determine their names and political affiliations!

[Sherman Logan]

The Dmanisi fossils are no doubt the earliest hominid fossils in Europe

I was taught that the Caucasus is the boundary between Europe and Asia. If this is correct, Georgia is in Asia.

[Publius6961]

Why they left Africa remains a mystery.

Why it is assumed that they must have originated in Africa is the deeper mystery.

The evolution of the earth has been a dynamic process, with at least seven supercontinents which have been determined. When, in this billions-of-years process man emerged is still unknown. The best we can do is say that the oldest (presumed) human ancestors discovered to date were found in Africa's rift valley.

That is not the same as saying that man's ancestors definitely originated there. Early American cultures have played musical chairs as to origins for at least 30,000 years.
Assumed theories are discarded and new ones created all the time.

If the actual origin of man has long disappeared into a subduction zone, the question may never be answered.

[NormsRevenge]

a few still walk among us to this day..

-REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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-AP Photo/Rob Carr

[swmobuffalo]

So how do we know they were “hominid” and not just some kind of ape or monkey?

[damondonion]

All of these things (hominids) are monkeys and they’re not related to us in any way, shape, or manner.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Georgiamus Crackermus

[redpoll]

This isn’t a new fossil find. The news of the Homo erectus fossils in Georgia has been circulating for many years. It’s interesting to find fossils like this in a place like Georgia, but if my readings are any indication, Georgia is drop-dead gorgeous place with a beautiful climate and awesome scenery, so it makes sense that our ancestors would move there and set up house. I would, too, if I didn’t have to worry about political instability in the region.

[Bringbackthedraft]

I’ll stick to the old beliefs. My ancestors arrived here from a planet outside our solar system in an ice ship. Too bad the damn ship melted so we can no longer prove it.

[Sola Veritas]

“Why they left Africa remains a mystery.”

Maybe the rent was too high, or possibly HIV was a problem even then. Ya think? ;-\

[FastCoyote]

On a weekend canoeing trip down a river in the Georgia back country, four urban businessmen enter a nightmare in which both nature and mankind conspire to send them through a crucible of danger and degradation in which their lives and perhaps even their souls are put at horrendous risk.

Is this where they found the ancient bones?

[Islander7]

Anyone who thinks primitive humans are extinct never met my in-laws.

[Kevmo]

bmflr

[SunkenCiv]

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