Skull between Homo Sapiens and Homo Erectus

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2006-03-25 12:47am

MSNBC wrote:Ethiopian find could fill gap in human origins
Skull seen as ‘intermediate’ between modern humans and older ancestors
Reuters
Updated: 9:00 p.m. ET March 24, 2006

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A hominid skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race, a scientist said Friday.

The cranium, found near the city of Gawis, 300 miles (500 kilometers) southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, is estimated to be 200,000 to 500,000 years old.

The skull appeared “to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens,” Sileshi Semaw, an Ethiopian research scientist at the Stone Age Institute at Indiana University, told a news conference in Addis Ababa.

It was discovered two months ago in a small gully at the Gawis River drainage basin in Ethiopia’s Afar region, southeast of the capital.

Sileshi said significant archaeological collections of stone tools and numerous fossil animals were also found at Gawis.

“(It) opens a window into an intriguing and important period in the development of modern humans,” Sileshi said.

Over the last 50 years, Ethiopia has been a hotbed for archaeological discoveries. Hadar, located near Gawis, is where scientist Donald Johnson found the 3.2 million-year-old remains of “Lucy,” described by scientists as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world.

Lucy, unearthed in 1974, is Ethiopia’s world-acclaimed archaeological find. The discovery of the almost complete hominid skeleton was a landmark in the search for the origins of humanity.

Image: MapOn the shores of what was formerly a lake in 1967, two Homo sapiens skulls dating back 195,000 years were unearthed. The discovery pushed back the known date of mankind, suggesting that modern humans and their older precursors existed side by side.

Sileshi said while different from a modern human, the brain case, upper face and jaw of the cranium have unmistakable anatomical characteristics that belong to human ancestry.

“The Gawis cranium provides us with the opportunity to look at the face of one of our ancestors,” he added.

Look! A transitional species...

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2006-03-25 12:56am

It's an ape, you damn-dirty heathen liberal atheist liar. Evilutionists, along with Satan, made it to look like a real fossil.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2006-03-25 01:11am

wolveraptor wrote:It's an ape, you damn-dirty heathen liberal atheist liar. Evilutionists, along with Satan, made it to look like a real fossil.

No! It is clearly a human with arthritis! Everyone knows arthritis produces bone morphology that clearly resembles your "Homo erectus!"

Homo ergaster (Turkana Boy) has often been seen as a transitional species between Homo erectus and Homo sapien. This might not be the first species...

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2006-03-25 01:23am

Grr!!! I should have said, "Look sir! Transitional species." The moment is gone...

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-25 01:24am

Bah, Homo Erectus was already well on its way to human. When I think of what the fundies mean by missing link, I imagine some kind of half eyed half fingered half tailed half everything beast.

I wonder what a half opposable thumb would look like.

Brian

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2006-03-25 01:27am

brianeyci wrote:I wonder what a half opposable thumb would look like.

Brian

Look at a chimps foot. It's kinda opposable but not as I recall.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-25 01:57am

The Spartan wrote:
brianeyci wrote:I wonder what a half opposable thumb would look like.

Brian
Look at a chimps foot. It's kinda opposable but not as I recall.

Ah but you see that's not good enough for the fundies. If you have a half opposable thumb, where is the half of that? And if you find that, where's the half of that?

It's brilliant--they construct the question so you'll never be able to answer it. You have a human skull 1200-1300 cc. Okay, where's half of that? They find one, okay where's the half of that?

Brian

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-03-25 02:37am

The Spartan wrote:Look at a chimps foot. It's kinda opposable but not as I recall.

I tried Googling for pictures of George W. Bush's feet but I couldn't find any.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-03-25 03:28am

I heard this on the Swedish-speaking Finnish news yesterday. I searched the Internet without finding anything, so I thought the Finns had somehow screwed up.

A very interesting find!

LeftWingExtremist · Post by **LeftWingExtremist** » 2006-03-25 07:49am

wolveraptor wrote:It's an ape, you damn-dirty heathen liberal atheist liar. Evilutionists, along with Satan, made it to look like a real fossil.

no no no, its god testing our faith, we all know god made the earth to look young.

Akhlut · Post by **Akhlut** » 2006-03-25 01:45pm

Darth Wong wrote:
The Spartan wrote:Look at a chimps foot. It's kinda opposable but not as I recall.
I tried Googling for pictures of George W. Bush's feet but I couldn't find any.

Hey! That was completely uncalled for and undeserving! What have chimps done to deserve that sort of comparison?

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2006-03-26 03:50pm

Grr!!! I should have said, "Look sir! Transitional species." The moment is gone...

Where's the transitional species between that and the H.Erectus? Huh? Huh? Where is it? I demand that you show me proof right now!! Or else I'll stamp my foot and go to congregation and boast how I defeated a non-believer with their own science and logic.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2006-03-26 05:23pm

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just complicated our job as Evolutionists!

Where before, we had

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... Homo erectus-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-Homo sapiens

we now have

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... Homo erectus-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-new find-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-Homo sapiens

Do you know what this means, ladies and gentlemen? We have now doubled the number of missing links we need to find!

In all seriousness, though, this "missing links" shit is merely the result of the inability to understand the concepts of approximation and limits.