[allmendream]

Australopithocine was an extraterrestrial?

Come on! What are the chances that two independent lines of life would form genetic DNA that is 98% the same?

There is a great deal of evidence of our ancestors from the last few million years.

There are only two explanations for why we and chimps are so similar, related by DNA changes that would correlate to us having a recent common ancestor some six to seven million years ago, and lo and behold three million years ago we find a very human like bipedal ape.

Just coincidence?

How would you explain the similar pattern of ERV insertions shared between humans and chimps, more similar between those two than chimps and gorillas.

Do you think chimps and gorillas shared a common ancestor? Or were they too extraterrestrials?

[RobbyS]

Australopithocine was an extraterrestrial? I doubt it, but am certain he was not "Adam." No, the only evidence of "our" ancestors is much newer than that. There is old evidence of primates, but it does not converge even to a population that we can say surely is "usuns". Convergence gets us close to a genus but not a species. The closer you get to escape velocity, the more small differences make. I bremember as a child reading "Before Adam," by Jack London. London was a thorough-going darwinist, a novelist rather than a scientist, but he gives good insight into the thinking of the day. His protagonist was a "near-human," or perhaps already human. He seems to have "awakened." to have crossed some threshold. Some additional circuit having been added to his brain. (my language, not his). How in the world are we ever going to find a way to measure that "leap."? Only by replicating it in the here and now. Digging into the earth, all we can do is to try to substantiate our faith.

[RobbyS]

Australopithocine was an extraterrestrial? I doubt it, but am certain he was not "Adam." No, the only evidence of "our" ancestors is much newer than that. There is old evidence of primates, but it does not converge even to a population that we can say surely is "usuns". Convergence gets us close to a genus but not a species. The closer you get to escape velocity, the more small differences make. I bremember as a child reading "Before Adam," by Jack London. London was a thorough-going darwinist, a novelist rather than a scientist, but he gives good insight into the thinking of the day. His protagonist was a "near-human," or perhaps already human. He seems to have "awakened." to have crossed some threshold. Some additional circuit having been added to his brain. (my language, not his). How in the world are we ever going to find a way to measure that "leap."? Only by replicating it in the here and now. Digging into the earth, all we can do is to try to substantiate our faith.

[RobbyS]

Australopithocine was an extraterrestrial? I doubt it, but am certain he was not "Adam." No, the only evidence of "our" ancestors is much newer than that. There is old evidence of primates, but it does not converge even to a population that we can say surely is "usuns". Convergence gets us close to a genus but not a species. The closer you get to escape velocity, the more small differences make. I bremember as a child reading "Before Adam," by Jack London. London was a thorough-going darwinist, a novelist rather than a scientist, but he gives good insight into the thinking of the day. His protagonist was a "near-human," or perhaps already human. He seems to have "awakened." to have crossed some threshold. Some additional circuit having been added to his brain. (my language, not his). How in the world are we ever going to find a way to measure that "leap."? Only by replicating it in the here and now. Digging into the earth, all we can do is to try to substantiate our faith.