The small teeth of the Flores hominin may suggest that it is related to early small toothed hominins like Ardipithecus or Sahelanthropus. The best opportunity...
[BBC NEWS] Human line 'nearly split in two' By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separatespecies...
"The genetic data show that populations came back together as a single, pan-African population about 40,000 years ago". That sounds incredibly strange if they...
Interesting points, Marcel. That is possible. It's also possible (and more likely, in my opinion,) that various hominids radiated out of the SE Asian islands....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/science/01eden.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Locations for the Garden of Eden have been offered many times before, but seldom...
Thank you for this. Click language has fascinated me since childhood and I loved hearing Miriam Makeba and have all of her recordings. I think it is what...
... Yes, the KhoiSan languages are both click and tonal (like Chinese) languages and surely must be very ancient. I note that Sinitic languages like Vietnamese...
Sahelanthropus had only 5 cranio-dental similarities with the gorilla and chimpanzee. But Sahelanthropus had 10 cranio-dental similarities with Homo and 14...
Marcel, what about the cranio-dental similarites shared by Sahelanthropus & Oreopithecus? They were on opposite ends of the pre-MSC Tunis - Italy wetland...
Since I believe that Oreopithecus was the-- direct ancestor-- of Sahelanthropus, I'm not surprised that Oreopithecus had 15 cranio-dental similarities with...
The myth of brain size being directly correlated to intelligence persists, probably as a form of anthropomorphism. That is, H.sapiens has a big brain so only...
on the subject of Oreopithecus's lineage to modern humans I say that this is a joke, his remains are far to old to have diverged from the ape lineage. As far...
The oldest Africa hominin, Sahelanthropus, is dated between 6.8 and 7.2 million years ago. Oreopithecus is dated at between 7.5 to 7.6 million years ago. So...
I think chimps and human diverged after (fossil) Oreopith, so if it was an early form of chimp, it was an early form of human, unless the claim is for...
The direct ancestor of the Oreopithecus appears to have been the African hominoid, Mabokopithecus. Mabokopithecus was also folivorous like Oreopithecus and...
http://paleobackup.nceas.ucsb.edu:8090/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=42398 Is there taxonomic confusion on this species? Are we talking of a...
Hominids are very rare fossils and I suspect there were more species of the genus Homo than realized in the lower paleolithic and apparently in isolated ...
Jack: It's quite possible there are more "hobbits" buried somewhere. But they haven't found them. Yet. Anne G Hominids are very rare fossils and I suspect...
... One of those in the "naysaying" camp, tries to discredit the idea of Homo floresiensis being a distinct population or species, by saying that they would...
... Note, "basil" is a typographical error. I meant to type, "basal," but on second thought, I should just say, "ancestral," to avoid confusion. I maintain...
... Marcel, you simply confuse parallel/convergent evolution (extremely frequent in evolution, and the final proof of Darwinism) with genetic relatedness. And...
There are a lot more Mabokopithecus (Nyanzapithecus) remains than there were back in 1970s. See: J Hum Evol. 2002 Jun;42(6):659-703.Click here to read Links ...
The fossil record does not reflect all of the fauna that existed at a given time nor their proportions relative to other species. There's very little fossil...
As you know Marc, I have no obsession with molecular clocks since I don't believe that there is any such thing as a molecular clock. No one should ever take...
This seems to add to the confusion: On the status of Mabokopithecus clarki Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 6, September 1985, Pages 603-605 Martin...
AJPA 2001 Craniodental comparisons of Mabokopithecus with Oreopithecus support an African origin of Oreopithecidae. B.R BENEFIT, M.L. McCROSSIN. New Mexico...
I just finished Mike Morwood and Penny Van Oosterzee's "A New Human" (Smithsonian Books) and it is a must read for the real skinny on Homo floresiensis. How...
If the branching off of Hf hails back to Toumai and the LCA, it would be Genus Parahomo and not Homo, IMO. Jack ... From: "Dan G." <dgplexus1@...> To:...
Jack: I don't think there are that many "Homo species". And the most likely "source population" , to my mind, is still, probably, some form of H.erectus. Bear...
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