Peking Man Lived 200,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

National Geographic ^ | March 12, 2009 | Brian Handwerk

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

An elaborate tale of human migrations deduced from the study of quartz grains.

I wonder what they mean by "world's foremost souce of Homo erectus fossils". As everyone knows, that supposed big fat mother-load of fossils was packed in a box and never heard from again, like we knew it would. As far as I know, what they have today are two pieces of skull-cap.

Learn the truth about evolution scientists.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Peking ping

[bamahead]

ping

[LiteKeeper]

Peking Man is a fraud...never existed!

[JoeProBono]

[Libloather]

Must’ve been the Kung Pow chicken. George likes his chicken spicy!

[boatbums]

Peking man...hmmm...is he related to Peking Duck? I like Peking Duck.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

750,000 years of human history, so how did all human knowledge and technology get developed over the last 5,000 years with most of it occurring in the last 500 years? That is astonishing.

[Jeff Chandler]

I once had Peking Duck that tasted that old.

[USNBandit]

Somebody with Photoshop skills should do a Hawaii certificate of live birth for this.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Don’t know about that but I don’t wanna be arounds no erectus homos.

[RaceBannon]

this is so bogus

the remains of Peking Man were LOST!!

Over 75 YEARS ago!!

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Through trade and exchange.

[allmendream]

And within the last 500 years we have learned more in science within the last 50 than in the 450 years preceding it. Knowledge grows on knowledge. Technology builds upon technology.

“If I have seen further than other men, it is because I stood upon the shoulders of giants!” Issac Newton

[Secret Agent Man]

Oh boy.

Rewrite the science books and dissertations all over again.

[Habibi]

I don’t think he’s really very interested in scientific knowledge. Just an observation.

[Sherman Logan]

Reaching southern China, the early humans would have come upon a subtropical forest, which would have proved uninviting to Homo erectus, who were accustomed to savanna and open woodlands, Ciochon suggests.

Typical idiotic remarks.

1. To get from Africa to China, they would have had to cross a huge variety of climates and vegetation zones. Just look at a map.

2. Such travel would likely have taken many generations, probably centuries or millenia, allowing them more than enough time to adapt to different ecosystems.

In fact, if they didn't adapt well to this variety, they would not have survived to reach China.

[metmom]

Obtained by measuring the decay of isotopes in buried quartz grains, the data suggest Peking man lived at Zhoukoudian about 750,000 years ago—200,000 years earlier than prior estimates, according to the study, led by Guanjun Shen of China's Nanjing Normal University.

They determined that Peking Man, of which there are apparently no fossils left, lived 200,000 years earlier than previously estimated based on the decay of isotopes in buried quartz grains, when they don't even have the fragments of the fossils left?

And they call this science?

[metmom]

Gotta keep the $$$$’s flowing.

[metmom]

And why would they have migrated to begin with? And so far?

If conditions where they were were bad, they would have traveled far enough to find better ones and stopped there. Once they found adequate conditions, there would be no reason for them to continue.

If conditions continued to be bad, they wouldn’t have kept going; they likely would have died out.

So what brilliant reasons do archaeologists contrive to explain why humans would migrate for so many thousands of miles?