[Army Air Corps]

That’s racist!

[Sola Veritas]

David Lordkipanidze? Homo Lordkipanidze sounds like a fossil.

[org.whodat]

What, you mean the earth is over 6,000 years old. Well Dang!!!!! LOL!!!

[American Constitutionalist]

Why yes, everyone knows that the blacks are the true Jews .. SARCASM....

[RobbyS]

Point being that we only know part of the story. Suppose these beings were a pygmy versions of other humanoid types. Even if we accept evolutionary theory, we might miss the agent that induced the change from one kind to another. Natural selection is, after all, no more than the conclusion of a statistical study of local and observable adaptations.

[Nosterrex]

The origin of the human race changes about once every year. Someone else will find another fossil somewhere, and we will have another theory. It’s just like the origin of the universe. That view changes about once every five years. Today it’s dark matter; tomorrow it will be something else.

[BlueStateBlues]

Europeans gold, Asians silver, Africans bronze

[Will88]

Either Homo erectus could have evolved in Africa and then spread to Asia and even Europe, or a more primitive relative might have left Africa and evolved into the more upright, advanced species in Eurasia.

The PC crowd will not allow any notion that a primitive relative left Africa, then evolved into "the more upright, advanced species in Eurasia." Can't have that.

[blam]

I knew this was significant when I posted it back in 2003:

Stranger In A New Land

Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site. "

[dangus]

Who'd've thought we evolved corny smiles before enlarged cerebrums?

[hotshu]

This is liable to get a few folks all wee-weed up!

[pabianice]

[spodefly]

He added that there were intriguing similarities between the Dmanisi fossils and the more recent hominins recently discovered at Flores in Indonesia — the diminutive species Homo floresiensis and nicknamed “hobbits”. “The possibility exists the primary dispersal gave rise to the Dmanisi fossils and the hobbits,” Professor Stringer said.

I would be willing to speculate that the hobbit population eventually evolved into the Gnomes, although I am sure Gnomes will balk at this idea.