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Why is it that when remains such a "little foot" are found, they have to "fit" into some kind of box in order to be considered part of the human evolutionary trail?
The article states that it cannot be considered a direct ancestor of humankind but more of a distant cousin. To my mind, distant, near or right the blazes on top of ya, if it is determined to be hominid, then if belongs on the trail.
How off base am I with that thinking?
The article states that it cannot be considered a direct ancestor of humankind but more of a distant cousin. To my mind, distant, near or right the blazes on top of ya, if it is determined to be hominid, then if belongs on the trail.
How off base am I with that thinking?
we were discussing this non existent news storyWhich one was that
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/ma ... eman08.xmlBut now the apeman has been dated precisely to 2.2 million years old by scientists at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool, making it about 400,000 years too young to be a part of man's family tree
marduk wrote:quite a lot
at that stage in history there was more than one homo species on earth
we are only descended from one of them Neanderspeculators aside
okay, more than one species I can handle, but, why is it that we are said to descend from only one? That is the part I cannot get my mind to accept.
I know this is an old argument, but it still doesn't make sense.
"Neanderspeculators"....good one..
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