Wasn't he in The Chronicles of Riddick?
Posted on 03/26/2008 12:10:28 PM PDT by decimon
Franco?
If they claimed “proof” and TRVTH” the science-deniers would be all over them even more than they usually are with their cautious, provisional statements.
From the article: MADRID, Spain - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say.
Sounds to me like they are claiming proof in this statement....”A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor”. Science-deniers...good one.....
Wasn't he in The Chronicles of Riddick?
Dead, I fear.
Interestingly, the 'Hobbits' found on Flores Island (Indonesia) were compared to the Dmanisi samples too.
Stranger In A New Land
(Dmanisi, Georgia)
Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site.
How often does the press get anything correct?
My roommate in college was from Nantucket.
Remarkable fellow, really.
“How often does the press get anything correct?”
Not sure. Why?
No Helen Thomas pic? ;-)
Because you appear to be basing the validity of this find on words from reporters, not the scientific data.
Trusting reporters to get something correct is never a very wise thing to do.
Because you appear to be basing the validity of this find on words from reporters, not the scientific data.
Trusting reporters to get something correct is never a very wise thing to do.
Okay...how about this quote from the Scientist then....he seems to think his find is conclusive, wouldn’t you agree?:
“This leads us to a very important, very interesting conclusion,” Carbonell said. It is this: that hominins which emerged from Africa and settled in the Caucasus eventually evolved into Homo antecessor, and that the latter populated Europe not 800,000 years ago, but at least 1.3 million years ago.
“This discovery of a 1.3 million-year-old fossil shows the process was accelerated and continuous; that the occupation of Europe happened very early and much faster than we had thought,” Carbonell said.
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Thanks decimon. I've never been there, but I kinda like the music. |
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New Atapuerca human find.
So we find VERY olde pre-human remains in Europe, but we all came out of Africa 150k years ago? This is so confusing...is it just me or have Carleton Coon and Milford Wolpoff just filled my head with mush?
Jimmy Hoffa?
No, I was never even a Teamster. :-)
The key thing is, there were many types of hominids running around in those days. Not all of them were our ancestors. If one were to see one running around today it would be called a “wildman” or maybe even “Bigfoot.”
Remember Kilroy!
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