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So now we have switched from faint physical evidence to looking for a single DNA sequence in samples multi tens of thousands of years old? My opinion of DNA evidence is that it has a lot of human “interpretation.” Even with samples a week old. The Myth of Fingerprints vs DNA https://www.smithsonianm...

So, if this " Broka's Area" exists, and depending on its relative size, we can determine the amount of similarity to current homo sapiens?
Bigger is better?

Let’s hope the guy in San Diego doesn’t get ahold of Abby's DNA !

My hat rack is squeaking again. I was not aware of the size vs weight argument. But if, "It is not the size as much as the organizational structure of the brain that matters." How do we determine the organizational structure of a brain from a skull that is multi thousands of years old? Jus...

If brain size determined intelligence, wouldn’t elephants, or blue whales, rule the world?

(But then, maybe they are smart enough to just not get involved?)

No
It is not

The teeth had a peculiar shape. Some of the front teeth had three roots, for example, whereas those of our species usually only have just one. And the teeth were tiny. The researchers didn’t find enough bones to estimate how tall Homo luzonensis stood. But they do display their own strange mix of tr...

"Then they proceed by taking measurements & then making comparisons to known, suspected examples. Often, there is not enough material to make a definitive identification & the anatomists will either make a suggestion as to a possible identification or they will concede that there is not...

So it is all based on visual perception?
And that is based on historical differences?

I don't know the differences.
That is why I asked.

So who and how is it determined if a discovery is one or the other?

What are the criteria for making it a "homo" as opposed to what ever a chimpanzee is?

There is concordable discussion on who, where, when, and why agriculture was first used In my mind the why was simple. Food. Gardening was, and still is, a common way to feed a family. But what do you call agriculture that produces more than you can eat? (Or even produces non-eatable stuff?) I think...

On the "life will go on" theme: https://www.ecomagazine.com/news/science/florida-s-toxic-red-tides-are-more-resilient-than-previously-thought?utm_source=ECO+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f047bf244a- Florida’s Toxic Red Tides Are More Resilient Than Previously Thought! Co2 high/CO2 low we don...

Long before the were SUVs there was a US river called "The Big Muddy"

When I was in Jr High School we had a science teacher that one day brought in a bag of oranges that he passed around. After we all had on we were told to notice the bumps a grooves of the skin. He then told us that, in scale, the difference between the top of Mt Everest and the deepest ocean trench ...

I thought man caused change was a fake when Al G first brought it up.

In spite of our egos, we are just to small to affect something so big.