Neanderthals could be brought back within 20 years — but is it a good idea ? [ Nope ]
...with today's technology, we cannot bring back Neanderthals. But even if future advances allow it, should we !? [ They will want Europe and Caucasia as homelands ]
Scientists Could Bring Back Neanderthals Within 20 Years — But At What Cost ?
Neanderthals could walk among us within 20 years — but would reviving our extinct cousin rewrite science or unleash an ethical nightmare ? [ Yes ]
New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of human evolution, several key chapters are still missing.
One major gap lies between 2 and 3 million years ago, a period for which fossil evidence remains scarce. This absence is especially significant because it marks the era when the branch of the hominin family tree that includes modern humans, or Homo sapiens, first appears in the fossil record.
Today, Homo sapiens (commonly referred to by anthropologists as Homo) is the only surviving member of the hominin lineage. In earlier times, however, our ancestors shared the Earth with other related species, sometimes competing and coexisting with them. Recent research supported by the National Science Foundation and the Leakey Foundation, and published in Nature, helps close one of these evolutionary gaps by revealing two early hominin species that lived side by side.
At the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, an international research team discovered hominin fossils dated between 2.6 and 3.0 million years old. Lucas Delezene, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, served as the study’s second author, contributing alongside more than 20 scientists from North America, Africa, and Europe...
An international team of researchers working at Ledi-Geraru in Ethiopia has uncovered fossils indicating that early Homo and a newly identified Australopithecus species coexisted between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago.
The discovery includes 13 Australopithecus teeth, distinct from the famous Australopithecus afarensis (“Lucy”), and confirms there is no evidence of Lucy’s kind after 2.95 million years ago.
Dating was made possible by analyzing volcanic ash layers containing feldspar crystals, bracketing the fossils in time. This finding reveals a more complex, “bushy tree” pattern of human evolution, where different hominin species overlapped in both time and place.
Two Hominin Species Together: Oldest known Homo fossils and a new Australopithecus species found at the same site.
Precise Dating from Volcanic Ash: Feldspar crystals in volcanic layers bracketed the fossils at 2.6–2.8 million years old. Complex Evolutionary Picture that Supports a “bushy tree” model of human evolution with overlapping species.
Arizona State University A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time — between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago.
The paleoanthropologists discovered a new species of Australopithecus that has never been found anywhere. The Ledi-Geraru Research Project is led by scientists at Arizona State University and the site has revealed the oldest member of the genus Homo and the earliest Oldowan stone tools on the planet....
Humans evolved fastest among the apes, 3D skull study shows
Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits
Early Humans Outsprinted Other Apes in Evolution, Growing a Larger Brain at a Faster Rate
Early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to socialize...
Human evolution is a long and winding tale that goes back millions of years, but one aspect of our anatomy shaped up quickly compared to other mammals: our large brains and flat faces. As these distinctive features were catching on in humans, the development of skull structure in other apes dragged behind.
The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher.
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Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls
The paper, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analysed how the evolutionary diversity of the skulls of humans and other related apes evolved over millions of years. They found that the skull structure for humans evolved substantially faster than that of any other closely related ape species.
In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate Earth
Charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.
When Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa some 300,000 years ago, we did not roam the planet alone...
■ ] Our species lived alongside at least six, and possibly more:
other human species, from Homo erectus, the first hominin species to venture out of Africa; to Neanderthals and Denisovans, contenders for our closest relatives; --- } all the way to Homo floresiensis — less than 4-foot-tall (1.2 meters) "'hobbits"' who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores. Let alone other species like : non-hominin hominids such as : The Meganthropus...etc.
It's an origin story that Ella Al-Shamahi, a British Arab paleoanthropologist, presenter and explorer, often likens to the Lord of the Rings. Yet, despite its intriguing details, it's also one she says we don't talk about enough...
Creepy; attached like an Impaled Vampire !
''' A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that lived alongside Homo neanderthalensis... '''
[ '' From a morphological point of view," writes a team led by geochronologist Christophe Falguères of the Institute Of Human Paleontology in France.
The Petralona hominin forms part of a distinct and more primitive group than Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and the new age estimate provides further support for the coexistence of this population alongside the evolving Neanderthal lineage in the later Middle Pleistocene of Europe '' ]
New archaeological discoveries on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that early humans made a major sea crossing far earlier than previously believed.
Stone tools dating back over a million years reveal that ancient hominins were active in this region of Wallacea, a zone long considered a barrier to migration....
Ancient tools found on Sulawesi suggest early humans crossed formidable seas over a million years ago, leaving behind mysteries about their identity and evolution.
Researchers from Griffith University have uncovered evidence that ::
Early hominins ventured across open seas to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi far earlier than previously believed.
The discovery comes from stone tools at the Early Pleistocene (or ‘Ice Age’) site of Calio, dated to at least 1.04 million years ago.
The study, published in Nature, was led by Budianto Hakim of Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and Professor Adam Brumm of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University.
Hakim’s excavation team unearthed seven stone artifacts from sandstone layers exposed in a cornfield in southern Sulawesi. These tools provide direct evidence of early human activity in the region.
21 Votes in Poll
I made a side view reconstruction of Peking man's face. I then said if the post got 15 up votes I would upload a front view
So behold! A face lost to time! Again!
Here is a *updated picture of the side view
If you look closely you can see in this his slight smile. Reminding you that even though he is so far removed from us,he is just like us. Human. Not some monster or primitive beast,but an individual just like you and me. Nothing but a man. Nothing but Human
