700,000-Year-Old ‘Hobbit’ Fossils Found On Indonesian Island (PHOTOS)
Posted on 05/04/2018 7:12:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve noticed with interest that Neanderthal man is now frequently classed as Homo sapiens.
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May as well be as we share DNA.
Somebody moved the decimal point over one place. /s
This is after Adam & Eve, of course.....
That’s been going on for years. Sometimes “Homo neanderthalensis”, sometimes “Homo sapiens neanderthalensis”.
Ha ha copy that!
Considering the weakness of chinese alloys, I’ve been working on a stone socket set. No luck yet.
Yeah, they were all probably tie backs though
That was my first reaction— rhino lumpia...mmmmmm.
They were looking for compliant women!
The most common definition for a species is whether they can breed and produce fertile offspring. Thus all domestic dogs are the same species because they can produce offspring, excluding some ones with size complications like St. Bernards and chihuahuas. With DNA testing it appears that modern humans and Neaderthals did breed when they met.
I’ve seen research that indicates that the offspring of modern human/Neanderthal pairings weren’t as robust as their parents, which could explain the low amount of Neanderthal DNA in our own genes, i.e., 2%.
Apparently relatively few offspring survived and successfully bred.
Maybe just at the border of being the same species.
It was the first Helen Thomas pinup calendar.
They called him the Rhinoceros Stone Cowboy.
The maps I’ve found so far haven’t borne that out — there’s been periods when the gaps narrowed, but the archipelago has always been isolated.
http://philippines.fieldmuseum.org/natural-history/narrative/4789
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g9P6SBb-Hwo/maxresdefault.jpg
The ocean froze over, and the people trudged across to each island over the ice. ;^)
This map shows a connection between Greater Sulu and Borneo
Notice the small gap in this reconstruction between Greater Palawan and Borneo during the Older Dryas Period, which if memory serves was a time of falling sea levels circa 14,000 years ago which makes it positively modern compared to 700,000 ya
During the time show on the above maps, it would have been easy to cross. Anyway, I think you'd have to look at some specialized academic sea level maps to find anything prior to 20,000 ya.
So my original assertion could be wrong; there's no telling apparently. There does not seem to be much on sea levels during the start of the Paleolithic Age in Asia or anywhere else I could find. If it exists, it is not published yet.
At 14,00,000 ya that area does not look to have emerged from the main land masses FWIW.
Since the artifacts are much older — 700K — and there’s info in the text that the water was deeper farther back in the Pleistocene, it remains to be seen that there was a land bridge.
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