Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought (China)

Washington University in St. Louis ^ | October 25, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

An international team of researchers based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World.

The research was published Oct. 25 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The discovery of early modern human fossil remains in the Zhirendong (Zhiren Cave) in south China that are at least 100,000 years old provides the earliest evidence for the emergence of modern humans in eastern Asia, at least 60,000 years older than the previously known modern humans in the region.

[decimon]

Hu’s your daddy ping.

[Pollster1]

So we’re all Asian Americans and not African Americans?

[decimon]

So we’re all Asian Americans and not African Americans?

Looking at a world map, I'd say most of us are Asian. A Euro-mutt like me would be West Asian.

[smokingfrog]

Probably faked.

The Chinese just want people to believe that they’re more advanced than everyone else.

[sodpoodle]

***The Chinese just want people to believe that they’re more advanced than everyone else.***

That would only have merit if archeologists discover the wheel, cuneiform writing, cooking utensils, pottery, cloth and other forms of advanced human culture in the same area.

I personally believe, somewhere on the Earth, there was one homo sapiens born with an extry large brain and he begat a lineage of exceptional talent & creativity. BTW he was an Englishman.

[decimon]

BTW he was an Englishman.

[luvbach1]

This 100,000-year-old human didn’t necessarily look Chinese.

[luvbach1]

Aren’t Queen Eliz and Charles, German?

[decimon]

Aren’t Queen Eliz and Charles, German?

Wikipedia: The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the Commonwealth realms. It is a branch[dubious – discuss] of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), which adopted the English name Windsor by a royal proclamation on the 17 July 1917. The most prominent member of the House of Windsor is Elizabeth II, the reigning monarch over the Commonwealth realms.[1] However, the head of the House of Windsor (cadet branch of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) is Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, as the senior male-line descendant of King George V, who founded the house by changing its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. The overall head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, including the Windsor branch, is Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The heir to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms, Charles, Prince of Wales, is a member of a distinct House of Windsor, a cadet branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg as membership to European royal houses is determined by patrilineal descent.[citation needed]

[SunkenCiv]

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[djf]

IIRC, Bucky Fuller said that humans did not come out of Africa, but that they started in SE Asia.

[TheOldLady]

...somewhere on the Earth, there was one homo sapiens born with an extry large brain and he begat a lineage of exceptional talent & creativity. BTW he was an Englishman.

My hubby would agree with you, having been a subject of the queen until just a few years ago.

[Mike Darancette]

Out of China? I doubt it.

[sodpoodle]

LOL!!!

These threads provoke me to pondering and a desire to sort out all the remarkable discoveries that have occurred in such a short period of history.

I wonder how we would begin the fundamentals of metallurgy, horticulture, domesticating animals for fur and meat, creating tools and vessels or modes of transportation.

Our ancestors were so inquisitive and resourceful- even though I suspect many discoveries were totally accidental.

[TheOldLady]

Innovation was probably accidental in some cases, but I think that we have always had our geniuses and scientists, thank God.

[Bellflower]

I personally believe, somewhere on the Earth, there was one homo sapiens born with an extry large brain and he begat a lineage of exceptional talent & creativity. BTW he was an Englishman.

Engishman I don't know but I do know his name. It was Adam and he was the first.

[blam]

Thanks for the post.

I'm not the least bit suprised though.

[SunkenCiv]

Two reconstructions of Neanderthals are shown in at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. A newly found fossil suggests modern humans and Neanderthals mixed sexually in Asia. Click to enlarge this image. -- AP Photo/Martin Meissner

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[blam]

Minatogawa People (An Asian Neanderthal?)