Mysterious new dwarf human species probed after scientists find 3 million year old skull in cave

www.mirror.co.uk ^ | Updated 17:33, 16 Mar 2016 | By Siobhan McFadyen

[Texan5]

I’ve read bits of Greek history that say Alcibiades was a hell of a soldier, along with that business about the Spartan king’s wife-some say he fathered a kid on her-he also had a wife, and may have kept an official mistress, too-but that wasn’t exactly unusual for powerful and well-off men in Greece at that time...

[pepsi_junkie]

Yeah, Alcibiades differs from current political opportunists in that he had real talents outside politics and when he defected from your camp (or was driven away) you were far worse off for it.

But politics is such that real world ability and skill are not actual prerequisites for the job, in fact having them is a liability. Other politicians will get jealous and have you exiled. Heck, look at what they're doing to Trump now for an example of how it never changes.

[Texan5]

Well, of course they are trashing him-isn’t he just about the only one who isn’t a lawyer?

[Red Badger]

My mother and her mother both had red hair. My sister as well.
Me? I got black hair. Had black hair. What’s left is gray.......................

[Texan5]

I would be as much gray as red without Clairol...

[AmericanVictory]

They represent the Lollipop Kid.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Don’t you mean The Lollipop Guild?

[BroJoeK]

RB: "I find it amazing that these bones lay undisturbed for nearly 3 million years..."

Agreed, but last time I read about it, they were having trouble dating the remains.
Seems some of the usual dating techniques don't work in this particular circumstance.
Indeed, according to Wackypedia, those remains still are not dated.

That means the age of 2.8 million years is strictly educated guess-work based on similar remains found elsewhere which could be dated.
So, at some point they will find a reliable method for dating these bones, and then we'll learn they were not 2.8 million years, but rather "x.y" years old.
Then many will have a field day claiming, "see, see, science is worthless".

Not science itself, but a lot of science writers seem to be taken from goats of their class.

[TigersEye]

Fair enough. You can’t expect today’s journalists to be too technical.
They don’t know much about much.

[TigersEye]

That cave system is pretty cool. I don’t know about their theory that the bodies were dropped in from above though. It doesn’t look that plausible based on that graphic at any rate.

[blam]

"They were in South Africa, nowhere near the “Hobbits”. "

A world apart.

[Yaelle]

Homo Foamio.

[BroJoeK]

TigersEye: "bodies were dropped in from above..."?

I noticed that too, it presumes some evidence of an ancient sinkhole, now filled it.
Much remains unexplained.