scientists discover new homo

Ripskater is probably beating his wife right now
 
Big Tuppy Hole said:
Neanderthal man berried there dead aswell
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the lack of imagination from certain sects of modern scientific discovery is baffling in its absence at times.

Since I have one, I'll just throw this out there. All homo species going back over the last few million years probably buried their dead and were much smarter than certain scientists (like those shocked at this practice in the article) gave them credit for.

Here is how ridiculous it's gotten. Neanderthal has been known to have a larger brain size that modern humans for a great while, yet many in the scientific community and lay community as a whole still hold on to the old idea that they were somehow a really dumb version of us with the only real reasoning being that they died and we did not.
 
Horse Style said:
ripskater has proven to be a simpleton over and over. I don't know why anyone gives serious replies to what he posts.
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It's posts like this that prove he is exposing simpletons here left and right.
 
Big Tuppy Hole said:
Neanderthal man berried there dead aswell
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There is Shanidar Cave and signs of defleshing on some Neanderthal bones. Both are still disputed as evidence as ritual care for the dead.

However, it wouldn't shock or surprise me if much more solid evidence Neanderthal ritual burial (or whatever) turns up in the future.
 
andnowweknow said:
the lack of imagination from certain sects of modern scientific discovery is baffling in its absence at times.

Since I have one, I'll just throw this out there. All homo species going back over the last few million years probably buried their dead and were much smarter than certain scientists (like those shocked at this practice in the article) gave them credit for.

Here is how ridiculous it's gotten. Neanderthal has been known to have a larger brain size that modern humans for a great while, yet many in the scientific community and lay community as a whole still hold on to the old idea that they were somehow a really dumb version of us with the only real reasoning being that they died and we did not.
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It's been theorized that one of the major reasons Neanderthal died out was because they spent too many resources to take care of their elderly and homo sapiens were behind in that regard at the time. But times were rough and it was too much of a cost to bear on top of the othe factors that led to their extinction. We may be the underachieving brother that got lucky.
 
Slick_36 said:
It's been theorized that one of the major reasons Neanderthal died out was because they spent too many resources to take care of their elderly and homo sapiens were behind in that regard at the time. But times were rough and it was too much of a cost to bear on top of the othe factors that led to their extinction. We may be the underachieving brother that got lucky.
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This is why we should hate old people
 
I was actually looking into books about homonid evolution before this hit the news. Can anybody recommend a good one? Preferably as informative and clearly structured as possible and not your kids educational book.
 
I came for the new homo discovery. Left this thread satisfied.
 
Dr Hannibal Lecter said:
I was actually looking into books about homonid evolution before this hit the news. Can anybody recommend a good one? Preferably as informative and clearly structured as possible and not your kids educational book.
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Nice, I would be interested as well. It's such a mind blowing topic. Neanderthals weren't the only close cousins we had, there were many across the world that were quite unique. It's a real trip to imagine a world where we were not the only intelligent life, but that we may not have even been the most intelligent of that bunch. And findings like this really change things, it certainly raises the bar for our relatives that came later and shows we aren't as unique as we think. But I think that's a good thing, I see it as potential for all life to reach a high level.
 
Slick_36 said:
Nice, I would be interested as well. It's such a mind blowing topic. Neanderthals weren't the only close cousins we had, there were many across the world that were quite unique. It's a real trip to imagine a world where we were not the only intelligent life, but that we may not have even been the most intelligent of that bunch. And findings like this really change things, it certainly raises the bar for our relatives that came later and shows we aren't as unique as we think. But I think that's a good thing, I see it as potential for all life to reach a high level.
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It's definitely interesting. It's also interesting to wonder about what interbreeding might have happened way down the line of our lineage. And like you said, all the various subspecies that may have existed. Just looking at primates it's awesome to see how similar they are to us, it's crazy to think of how other hominids were living and interacting with all of their surroundings.
 
Slick_36 said:
It's been theorized that one of the major reasons Neanderthal died out was because they spent too many resources to take care of their elderly and homo sapiens were behind in that regard at the time. But times were rough and it was too much of a cost to bear on top of the othe factors that led to their extinction. We may be the underachieving brother that got lucky.
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Knowing how disasters of the past have brought species to the brink of extinction throughout history, I'd guess the most likely scenario for the Neanderthals going extinct and us moving forward had to do with a larger number of us being in the right place at the right time.

As a corollary to this idea, we know that North America lost 80% of it's large mammal species at the end of the last ice age. We know Asia lost about 50% or around about there...and then comes the interesting part...Africa, specifically the rift valley region (and Central Africa), lost only 10% of it's mammals OVER 100 lbs in body weight. What does that tell us?

Whatever happened to cause the greatest extinction event in the time that modern homo sapien sapien human has existed on this planet happened specifically and with great severity in North America, with trailing effects then hitting South America, Asia and Africa in that order regarding severity.

It's pretty clear it was fragments of a disintegrating comet specifically that probably directly impacted the ice sheets over north america (it's actually seeming like this happened 2 times within a 1000 years which is scary and shows it was likely the same material passing again the second time, a second pass) but that's the thing...Animals in Africa weren't directly in the vacinity and North American animals were...blind luck. Shit, we had bigger lions than Africa, we had a short faced bear which was probably the apex land predator in the world, all kinds of coolness stolen from us. Now Africa thinks it's hot shit...jk.

Anyway, I digress...I'd say it's likely that the same sort of thing happened with Humans and Neanderthals.
 
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