Posted on 12/27/2010 4:13:51 PM PST by decimon
Scientists could be forced to re-write the history of the evolution of modern man after the discovery of 400,000-year-old human remains.
Until now, researchers believed that homo sapiens, the direct descendants of modern man, evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago and gradually migrated north, through the Middle East, to Europe and Asia.
Recently, discoveries of early human remains in China and Spain have cast doubt on the 'Out of Africa' theory, but no-one was certain.
The new discovery of pre-historic human remains by Israeli university explorers in a cave near Ben-Gurion airport could force scientists to re-think earlier theories.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Qesem if you can ping.
A garden, eastward in Eden, bounded by the rivers Pithon, Tigris and Euphrates...
...IIRC.
You do.
Is it just me, or how can homo sapiens be the direct descendants of modern man? Who wrote this thing?
Not a scientist but a science reporter. Therein lies a basis for much confusion on this and related matters.
Hey!! That’s the guy from the Seven Eleven down the street!!
True enough. Science writers do nearly as much damage to science as climatologists.
Back to the future!?
>> “Is it just me, or how can homo sapiens be the direct descendants of modern man? Who wrote this thing?” <<
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Hey, if you believe evolution, you’ll believe anything; you could even be your own grandma.
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Imagine if the Bible was all true? /sarcasm
Wow, there goes all the Afrocentric university departments / S
Nope, it is not just you, the fact is today’s journalist don’t know how to write or understand the meaning of words and phrases.
Reparations!!!
Actually they came out of both places at the same time.
The Africans were very fast runners
but the Middle Easterners had flying carpets.
Stone Age site -- Excavations conducted more than 30 years ago in this quarry in southeastern Spain, which includes an extensive sequence of sediment layers, yielded several hand axes that have now been dated to about 760,000 years ago, pushing back the emergence of stone tools in Europe.[L. Gibert] First tool -- Researchers say that a stone hand ax, shown here from both sides, that was previously found in a Spanish rock shelter dates to 900,000 years ago, making it the oldest such implement in Europe. [Michael Walker]
DNA's Evolutionary DilemmaA fundamental conflict between the two current theories -- each of which has several proposed variations on its theme -- lies in their differing assumptions about the evolutionary significance of genetic differences among individuals and populations, Relethford asserts. DNA analyses appear unable to determine which perspective proves superior, he says.
by Bruce Bower
February 6, 1999
Human Ancestors Went Out Of Africa And Then Came Back... [1998]
ScienceDaily | Friday, August 7, 1998 | adapted from New York University materials
Posted on 12/17/2007 8:37:11 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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100,000-year-old human skull found
China Daily | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 | unattributed
Posted on 01/23/2008 11:48:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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