DailyDirt: Looking Back At Ancient Humans
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Our ancient ancestors had a pretty tough life without fire, farming techniques and 4G wireless internet connections. But they managed to create cave paintings that still exist today, and we're still finding cool stuff that pre-historic people left behind. Here are just a few interesting links to our great-great-great...-great grandparents.- The mother of humanity lived approximately 200,000 years ago, according to a statistical analysis of a sampling of our genes that could be linked to a "mitochondrial Eve." Note that dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. [url]
- Red Deer Cave people lived in China thousands of years ago and seemed to like eating cooked venison meat (so they were nicknamed after their meals). These Stone Aged people could be a new species in human evolution, and they show that Neanderthals had plenty of company in Asia. [url]
- Homo floresiensis is another human ancestor who lived in Asia and could possibly have met Homo sapiens about 13,000 years ago. These folks were nicknamed 'Hobbits' because they're the smallest human species ever discovered. [url]
- Recently discovered fossils show that Homo erectus wasn't alone in East Africa, and at least two other Homo species lived nearby around the same time. These findings suggest that the evolution of Homo sapiens wasn't a linear progression (as depicted in many cartoons), and there's no "missing link" in the human family tree. [url]
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http://www.ohioexploration.com/mounds.htm
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Tree of evolution
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little did she know
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do you note you said "Ancestor common to ALL HUMAN BEING ALINE TODAY". That is why show is the "mother of HUMANITY, humans.. it's just not possible for 'one of her daughters' to take that role. by being her daughter, Eve is her mother, a daughter can be a mother, but not the daughter of the mother..
there is ONLY one linege of Homo, there is no indication at all in the dna record, or fossal record that indicates any intermixing of species..
It is common knowledge that Homo Erectus was not the only Homo species living in Africa, but there is no indiates that interbred, or that we are 'from' more than one species.
The "new species' in china, has been disproved for the last 20 years, that was a construct of Mao, infact the native chinese are closely related to American Indian according to DNA analysis.
Ho you are always good for some misinformation,
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animals go extint all the time, but dinosaurs did not go extinct.
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We Are Evolved For Technology
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I'd try to explain the science, but I don't think it would do any good.
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Now that would shake things up if evidence of human existence were found there especially if such existence proved inter galactic flight.
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People often ask how we know this and I only respond like this:
There is a layer of earth where we see a grey vein. The vein appears just below or above everywhere we have found dinosaur fossils. Above this line we find very few species, below we find a ton of them. The grey line is a vein of decaying uranium (which is safe to touch considering the age) so based on the measurements of the half-life of uranium we can deduce roughly when an impact happened. Judging by the measurements, 65 million years is fairly accurate.
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