Posted on 10/17/2013 3:20:40 PM PDT by blam
An Incredible New Skull Is Forcing Us To Rethink The Evolution Of Early Humans
Dina Spector
Oct. 17, 2013, 2:01 PM
Photo courtesy of Georgian National Museum
A 1.8-million-year-old skull combines a small braincase with a long face and large teeth, which is unlike any other Homo fossils on record.
Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis, for example.
But an amazing new skull found in a republic of Georgia suggests that the specimens previously representing different species could come from a single, evolving lineage, according to a new report published in Science on Thursday, Oct. 17.
So-called "Skull 5" was dug up in Dmanisi, Georgia, between 2000 and 2005. It's believed to date back roughly 1.8 million years and comes from the same time period and location as four other skulls found earlier at Dmanisi.
Skull 5 is unique not only because it is the most complete Homo skull ever found, but it also looks very different from the other skulls found at this site. It combines a small braincase about one-third the size of modern humans with a large face that has a massive jaw and big teeth.
"This is a strange combination of features that we didn't know before in the early Homo," Marcia S. Ponce de León, from the Anthropological Institute and Museum in Switzerland, said in a media conference on Oct. 16.
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Thank you, nice work. Brings back memories of Old School FR. A time when you could come here and learn something.
Dangit, you beat me to it :-)
Looks like a Leader of the monkey world. Whacked by a Christian!
Nah that’d be a throwback...
Uncle Benny?
Fine I’ll defer to you, then. (eyeroll)
One the exact shape, Craft International was there first.
Or if you're talking about a small skull with no brain, communists were there first.
Reference ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
Reference ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
Depends on who you ask, give or take a million.
The invention of the double tap.
Considering where this came from he probably only had one eyebrow too. Maybe the remains of an ancient Breshnev or Stalin relative! LOL. Sounds phoney to me also.
Why? Because this is always been the drum beat of the Athiestic left. Find some skull, tag it as new proof of evolution. So where is the rest of them? Always find a tooth or a fragment of bones but never have there been a whole village of these so called “prehistoric men”. Just like the rest of transitional fossils that don’t exists. I guess it is easy to teach this crap to the children because
of the way our schools and colleges have been transformed into brainwash camps for the socialists that want to change history.
If one skull makes scientists “rethink” the story of evolution, then the story of evolution is built on a very shaky foundation.
Skull discovery suggests early man was single species
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