Posted on 10/17/2013 3:20:40 PM PDT by blam
An Incredible New Skull Is Forcing Us To Rethink The Evolution Of Early Humans
Dina Spector
Oct. 17, 2013, 2:01 PM
Photo courtesy of Georgian National Museum
A 1.8-million-year-old skull combines a small braincase with a long face and large teeth, which is unlike any other Homo fossils on record.
Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus — Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis, for example.
But an amazing new skull found in a republic of Georgia suggests that the specimens previously representing different species could come from a single, evolving lineage, according to a new report published in Science on Thursday, Oct. 17.
So-called "Skull 5" was dug up in Dmanisi, Georgia, between 2000 and 2005. It's believed to date back roughly 1.8 million years and comes from the same time period and location as four other skulls found earlier at Dmanisi.
Skull 5 is unique not only because it is the most complete Homo skull ever found, but it also looks very different from the other skulls found at this site. It combines a small braincase — about one-third the size of modern humans — with a large face that has a massive jaw and big teeth.
"This is a strange combination of features that we didn't know before in the early Homo," Marcia S. Ponce de León, from the Anthropological Institute and Museum in Switzerland, said in a media conference on Oct. 16.
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Maybe Jon Farkus Kerrian? The missing link.
5.56mm
whould say ne species will be called Homo Liberalis
I feel a John Kerry joke coming on.
Sawdring asked: “Why do you think it is fake?”
Because they usually are,
Nebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.
Java man: Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his “missing link”). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)
Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: “Skull fragment may not be human”, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)
Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: “Upgrading Neanderthal Man”, Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No. 20)
That may be the new ‘Helen Thomas’ pic.
the most complete Homo skull ever found.
She is so full of it her eyes are brown!!!
I’ve seen all kinds of women like that near closing time! ;-)
Or a deformed human from the era.
I remember that post. It would be interesting if unlikely to get DNA from this skull.
That looks just like a Spike’s Tactical roll mark!
You win!
Skullguy George appears to have 2 bullet holes in his head.
Horse face David Gregory’s long-lost relative?
Not the best way to level a charge of fakery, even for an expert like you.
Four great examples - but you just KNOW someone will call you a: "Flat-earther"
(I never understood why they equate scepticism (sp?) of macro-evolution with thinking the earth is flat....)
More Grant Money on the way!!
Me either since the bible told us the earth hangs in space, is a globe, spins and orbits with the sun long before they figured out you did not fall off the edge of the earth when sailing.
http://www.creationists.org/scientific-foreknowledge-in-the-bible.html
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