Re: Human family tree is a tangled, messy bush
- From: "J.LyonLayden" <JosephLayden@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:29:42 -0000
On Aug 31, 10:08 am, "simple_langu...@xxxxxxxxx"
<simple_langu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We want the first bipedal humans to stay out of the trees, but their
curved hand bones suggest they spent time swinging in the canopy like
apes; we want brain size to increase in lock step with tool use, but
tools appear before big brains; we want an orderly diaspora out of
Africa and across the globe by culturally armed early humans, but it
looks like people kept leaving all the time in fits and starts that
don't correlate with anything; and we want the last 200,000 years of
human evolution, the time when modern Homo sapiens appeared, to make
some kind of sense, but it doesn't.
And do you think that those skeptics on usenet who ridiculed posters
who believed in "little people" before the finding of Homo Flores have
gone back and apologized to the ones they offended? Will those who
ridicule belief in giants go back and apologize after we finally dig
up a complete meganthropus skeleton?
Once they've finally solidly pushed back the date of stone structures
and agriculture a couple more thousand years and "discover" that the
occurrences at the end of the last glaciation were alot more
catastrophic than previously thought, will all of us open-minded
people get formal apologies for the insults we've received?
It's amazing to me how people still ridicule the belief in "lost
civilizations" even after Troy has been discovered. Certainly they
realize that there's still much left to find.
.
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