Bones discovered could reveal behaviour of extinct relatives

Telegraph ^ | Friday, October 10, 2014 | Leon Siciliano

[UCANSEE2]

I SEE THE PROBLEM. It was a typo.

Here is the correct statement:

“If there were world-wide floods that wiped out most life on Earth, then it isn’t UNlikely that we are ancestors of the non-survivors.”

[UCANSEE2]

See post 21.

[RegulatorCountry]

We can’t be ancestors of the non-survivors because that was then and this is now. People descend from their ancestors.

[tumblindice]

Farmer Brown and farmer White hate one another with a white-hot fury.
A fence divides the farmers’ farms.
A rooster, just passing through, roosts on the fence and lays an egg which balances perfectly on the fence, one-half on each side.
Who gets the egg?

That’s right. The survivor.

[UCANSEE2]

Since when could a rooster lay an egg ?

[RegulatorCountry]

I’d be more worried about who gets the rooster with a balancing act that lays eggs, lol. Sounds like there might be money in that.

[RegulatorCountry]

Since when can we be the ancestors of people who died thousands of years ago? We can be their descendants. We can’t be their ancestors unless time travel is involved.

[UCANSEE2]

People descend from their ancestors.

And descend we have. I think we are actually getting lower on the evolutionary curve.

[tumblindice]

So the other boys said, “Hey, these aren’t ‘smart pills’!
All you did, you just put some rabbit turds in match boxes!”

See, now you’re getting smart.

[UCANSEE2]

Post 21.

[UCANSEE2]

See, now you’re getting smart.

I have a vaccine for that.

[UCANSEE2]

We can’t be their ancestors unless time travel is involved.

I'm my own grandpa.

[RegulatorCountry]

Pleased to meet y’all.

[entropy12]

I agree with your logic on “extinct”. But that is how they are described in anthropological books. So I guess I was in that rut.

[Tainan]

Kinda looks like a new updated ISIS flag.

[9422WMR]

“Notice that the tank is made up of ONE COMPLETE set of HUMAN BONES.”

A quick look shows only one foot and one hand. Not very complete if you ask me.....

[ElkGroveDan]

Slight exaggeration — your post only took a couple of lines, not a whole page.

zing.

[dsc]

“ceased being distinct due to genetic swamping.”

Very succinct; thank you.

[BroJoeK]

luvbach1: "How are pre Neanderthal Neanderthal?"

That word "Neanderthal" is just that, a word, used to describe remains similar to those first discovered in the Neander Valley, in northwestern Germany.
Today various sites are classified as "early Neanderthal", "middle Neanderthal" "late Neanderthal", "pre-Neanderthal" and even, presumably, "post-Neanderthal" -- all of which merely describes where-exactly investigators think each particular find fits in the great scheme of things.

Speculations about which creatures may have been ancestors of Neanderthals range from homo antecestor (circa 1.2 million years ago) to Homo heidelbergensis (circa 600 thousand years ago).
There are similarities amongst all these creatures and early "fully-humans", but also noticeable differences.

[BroJoeK]

UCANSEE2: "The assumption that they are our ‘ancestors’ may be incorrect to begin with.
If there were world-wide floods that wiped out most life on Earth, then it isn’t likely that we are ancestors descendants of the non-survivors."

The term "ancestors" is used loosely, since physical evidence points toward modern-humans first rising in Africa, not of the Neanderthal line.
And, today no Africans have "Neanderthal DNA" in their genomes.
Non-Africans do have some Neanderthal DNA -- from 2% to 4% -- which is now supposed to have resulted from, ah, er, ahem... Neanderthals in hiding in modern-human wood-piles...