Big Brain:
The Origins and Future
of Human Intelligence
by Gary Lynch
and Richard Granger
reviewed
Posted on 08/25/2009 6:36:39 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Recent findings have discovered that these aren’t even neandetal bones, but rather they are the bones of palento,ogists who got seperated fro m their groups while out looking for monkey bones to prove monkeys evolved Avocados-
“In conclusion, the current results show that the Neandertals carried a FOXP2 protein that was identical to that of present-day humans in the only two positions that differ between human and chimpanzee. Leaving out the unlikely scenario of gene flow, this establishes that these changes were present in the common ancestor of modern humans and Neandertals......”
Volume 17, Issue 21, 6 November 2007, Pages 1908-1912
Current Biology
The significance of this is that human speech was a possession of the Neandertal’s ancestors too with all that this implies. The authors were quite cautious in adding to the above:
“. The date of the emergence of these genetic changes therefore must be older than that estimated with only extant human diversity data, thus demonstrating the utility of direct evidence from Neandertal DNA sequences for understanding recent modern human evolution. Whatever function the two amino acid substitutions might have for human language ability, it was present not only in modern humans but also in late Neandertals. Ongoing in vivo and in vitro experiments should help to delineate these functions.”
The grunting, knuckle dragging brute retreats over the horizon.
Excuse me, a skullcap and partial skeleton discovered in 1856 of in a cave in the Neander valley in Germany, it was the first recognized fossil human form. It was later realized that several Neanderthal sites had previously been discovered but their remains were not recognized as an archaic form of human until the Neander valley discovery and the 1864 naming of “Neanderthal Man.”
Should have read ...first identified. Technical foul but they were still named for the valley where they were first identified which is not the Neanderthal (or whatever spelling) valley but the Neander valley.
Another “creationist research” magazine article where they summarize a legitimate scientific paper and then tack on a short paragraph (with no proof)linking it to the crevo viewpoint.
There was never a primitive man, never.
[[There was never a primitive man, never]]
Scythian- Meet Barney Fwank
Language appears all over the world almost simulataneously, and very complex like, from Homeric Greek, to Attic Greek, Koine (New Testament Greek) and finally modern greek, each change is a devolving of a very sophisticated and declinated language starting back with Homeric Greek, which is the most sophisticated, to modern Greek, which is all prepositions. Man was never a brute and an ape, unless you consider what he is now, but he is actually less intelligent now than he once was, oh he may have more information, but he is less intellegent. Go read a book from the 1850’s, they are devestating reads, compare that to modern writing, man is not evolving but he is devolving ...
[[Go read a book from the 1850’s, they are devestating reads, compare that to modern writing, man is not evolving but he is devolving ...]]
Aiont that hte truth? I liek reading the older books, but yep- they are a chore, but beautiful language nonetheless-
[[Language appears all over the world almost simulataneously, and very complex like, from Homeric Greek, to Attic Greek, Koine (New Testament Greek) and finally modern greek, each change is a devolving of a very sophisticated and declinated language starting back with Homeric Greek, which is the most sophisticated, to modern Greek, which is all prepositions.]]
Aight’ I C U C the diffrence tween t’day - Yesteryear- Rock on LOL
very interesting. I am interested in language evolution and thought much of the "devolving" was akin to our predilection to short cuts and the development of accents/dialects
Greek, is Greek to me (sorry), do you have examples of the changes in Greek language?
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Ah, yes, the "Barry Bonds roid skull" effect.
Big Brain:
The Origins and Future
of Human Intelligence
by Gary Lynch
and Richard Granger
reviewed
Odd Skull ping!
Sure. We talk just fine.
Just don't like it.
Mouth noise.
Feh.
Y'all gang up. It's a trait.
We scatter. Bad tactics I suppose.
One on one we do just fine. Y'all gang up.
Used to call y'all "gathers together man".
Freaks.
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