Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find..for now (Europeans, invention)
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
How can the scientists discuss anything having found only two bones? How can they draw the image of this animal? What are the proves ?
There is a photo of the head of an Graecopithecus freybergi in the article (post #1). The fantasy of the artist is great and the creature looks very clever . So clever that I have no doubts the creature could be able to talk about art, technic, ... even science!
Not only that but they painted pictures of them. Isn't science amazing, is there anything it cannot do?
Just because there is an ancient hominid that lived in Europe doesn't mean modern humans came from Europe, after all there were the Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo Erectus that was living in Eurasia for a very long time, but modern humans still came from Africa, we are not direct descendants of these species but close relatives. There were multiple waves of hominids that migrated into Eurasia, but Africa was always the homeland with the greatest diversity in hominid species.
Just because some intermediary specie between apes and man was found in Europe doesn't mean it was ancestral to modern humans. It could have been an evolutionary dead-end. More of those are being found, these days. Naturally, a scientist with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences would declare it as the earliest "missing link". Why would anyone expect him to be objective?
Notice the article uses the term "international team" to lend legitimacy to the story. An "international team" made up of Greeks, Bulgarians, and others with a stake in declaring the Balkans the "cradle of man" isn't convincing.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens is estimated to have diverged from a common ancestor with Chimps 5.5 million YBP, that is what the best science currently indicates. It sound likes they found an interesting specimen of an evolutionary dead end.
Arguing about this seems unrewarding since ten or twenty or one hundred years from now, other new discoveries might render what we know now, obsolete. By 2117 they may have it that all life originated on Miami Beach.
Right. The evolutionary history of mankind is similar to archeology. Just as new discoveries through archeological excavations give us more knowledge of our historical past, and cause us to revise human history; so continual new discoveries will revise the history of the evolution of human beings. It's going to be a bumpy ride for racialists of all stripes (so to speak.)
Just because there is an ancient hominid that lived in Europe doesn't mean modern humans came from Europe, after all there were the Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo Erectus that was living in Eurasia for a very long time, but modern humans still came from Africa, we are not direct descendants of these species but close relatives. There were multiple waves of hominids that migrated into Eurasia, but Africa was always the homeland with the greatest diversity in hominid species.
This is something I don't understand. When I took Biology, they said that fertile offspring could only be produced by members of the same species. e.g, dog and cats don't produce fertile offspring. Horses and mules can breed and produce donkeys but donkeys aren't fertile.
So, by definition I suppose, the offspring of members of two species breeding together are evolutionary dead end.
But, they also say that modern humans, in Europe anyway, contain DNA from Neanderthals. So doesn't that mean Neanderthals are the same species as Homo Sapiens? Maybe they are a race, a race which has been absorbed as it were in the Homo Sapiens mainstream, of humans rather than a separate species?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
?
