Becoming Human ---> The forces that fueled the evolution of Mankind

[rdean]

there is vigorous debate as to whether bipedalism was its primary method of locomotion, or whether it was combined with a significant amount of tree-climbing (arborealism). The features of Selam's upper body tend to be apelike: the shoulder blade closely resembles that of a gorilla, the finger bones are curved as in chimpanzees, and the semicircular canals are more like those of chimps than humans

DIK-1-1 (Selam)


I'm out of rep, Rtard, or I'd neg your stupid ass for using the handicapped to further your lame-assed argument.

Unlike you. Reaching levels of intelligence others have only dreamed about.

 

[rdean]

With only "some vertebrae"??

ok

No no, you're right. It makes far more sense that they're just making it up as they go along. That's how most scientists get to a position to study things like that, right?

No no, actually, I call it acting on a preconceived notion.

Don't stop now.

Keep going.

You're hilarious.

What did you give out rep for? Angry that someone said only a measly 6% of scientists are Republican?

 

[Tank]

The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word ‘sapien’ means ‘wise.’ The name was originally used to speak of the White man and synonymous with ‘europaeus.’ as a result, many later taxonomists and geneticists believed that Negroes and other races should be classified as different species. In fact, Darwin declared in The Descent of Man that the varieties of mankind are so distinct that similar differences found in any other animal would warrant their classification in different species, if not different genera

 

[rdean]

The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word ‘sapien’ means ‘wise.’ The name was originally used to speak of the White man and synonymous with ‘europaeus.’ as a result, many later taxonomists and geneticists believed that Negroes and other races should be classified as different species. In fact, Darwin declared in The Descent of Man that the varieties of mankind are so distinct that similar differences found in any other animal would warrant their classification in different species, if not different genera

Darwin died in 1882 when most ships ran on "wind power".

Glad our technology and understanding of science has come so far.

 

[Tank]

The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word ‘sapien’ means ‘wise.’ The name was originally used to speak of the White man and synonymous with ‘europaeus.’ as a result, many later taxonomists and geneticists believed that Negroes and other races should be classified as different species. In fact, Darwin declared in The Descent of Man that the varieties of mankind are so distinct that similar differences found in any other animal would warrant their classification in different species, if not different genera

Darwin died in 1882 when most ships ran on "wind power".

Glad our technology and understanding of science has come so far.

Colombus is dead too, and the earth is still round

 

[Tank]

for his mammoth work, The Origin of Races, Prof essor Carleton Coon, President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the premier geneticist of the world, assembled massive evidence from geography, anatomy, genetics, physiology, comparative dentition, linguistics, archeology, and fossil records from 300 bone-bearing sites to verify his theory of pre-sapien racianation. In other words, Homo erectus was divided by race even before evolution into Homo sapien stage.

According to Dr. Coon, while the Caucasoid subspecies (the White race) was evolving in Europe, the Negro race was standing still on the evolutionary plane and is today no less than 200,000 years behind the European in skull and brain development.

 

[rdean]

for his mammoth work, The Origin of Races, Prof essor Carleton Coon, President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the premier geneticist of the world, assembled massive evidence from geography, anatomy, genetics, physiology, comparative dentition, linguistics, archeology, and fossil records from 300 bone-bearing sites to verify his theory of pre-sapien racianation. In other words, Homo erectus was divided by race even before evolution into Homo sapien stage.

According to Dr. Coon, while the Caucasoid subspecies (the White race) was evolving in Europe, the Negro race was standing still on the evolutionary plane and is today no less than 200,000 years behind the European in skull and brain development.

Coon? Is that a joke?

 

[rdean]

The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word ‘sapien’ means ‘wise.’ The name was originally used to speak of the White man and synonymous with ‘europaeus.’ as a result, many later taxonomists and geneticists believed that Negroes and other races should be classified as different species. In fact, Darwin declared in The Descent of Man that the varieties of mankind are so distinct that similar differences found in any other animal would warrant their classification in different species, if not different genera

Darwin died in 1882 when most ships ran on "wind power".

Glad our technology and understanding of science has come so far.

Colombus is dead too, and the earth is still round

That was known well before Columbus.

And it's not even "perfectly" round.

 

[Tank]

—The hair is black, crispy, and “woolly” in texture, it isflat and elliptical with no central canal or duct like the hair of Europeans.
—The nose is thick, broad and flat, of ten turned up nostrils exposingthe red inner lining of the mucous membrane similar to an ape.
—The arms and legs of the Negro are relatively longer than the European.The humerus is a trifle shorter and the forearm longer thereby approximatingthe simian form.
—The eyes are prominent, iris black and the orbits large. The eye of tenhas a yellowish sclerotic coat over it like that of a gorilla.
—The Negro has a shorter trunk the cross-section of the chest is morecircular than whites. The pelvis is narrower and longer as it is in an ape.
—The mouth is wide with very thick, large and protruding lips.
—Negro skin has a thick superficial horny layer which resists scratchingand impedes the penetration of germs.
—The Negro has a larger and shorter neck akin to that of anthropoids.
—The cranial sutures are more simple than in the white type and closetogether earlier.
—The ears are roundish, rather small, standing somewhat high and detachedthus approaching the simian form.
—The Negro is more powerfully developed from the pelvis down and thewhite more powerfully developed in the chest.
—The jaw is larger and stronger and protrudes outward which, alongwith lower retreating forehead, gives a facial angle of 68 to 70 degreesas opposed to a facial angle of 80 to 82 degrees for Europeans.
—The hands and fingers are proportionally narrower and longer. Thewrist and ankles are shorter and more robust.
—The frontal and paricial bones of the cranium are less excavated andless capacious. The skull is thicker especially on the sides.
—The brain of the Negro on the average is 9 to 20 % smaller than whites.
—The teeth are larger and are wider apart than in the white race.
—The three curvatures of the spine are less pronounced in the Negrothan in the white and thus more characteristic of an ape.
—The femur of the Negro is less oblique, the tibia (shin bone) morecurved and bent forward, the calf of the leg high and but little developed.
—The heel is broad and projecting, the foot long and broad but slightlyarched causing flat soles, the great toe is shorter than in the white.
—The two bones proper of the nose are occasionally united, as in apes.

 

[rdean]

—The hair is black, crispy, and “woolly” in texture, it isflat and elliptical with no central canal or duct like the hair of Europeans.
—The nose is thick, broad and flat, of ten turned up nostrils exposingthe red inner lining of the mucous membrane similar to an ape.
—The arms and legs of the Negro are relatively longer than the European.The humerus is a trifle shorter and the forearm longer thereby approximatingthe simian form.
—The eyes are prominent, iris black and the orbits large. The eye of tenhas a yellowish sclerotic coat over it like that of a gorilla.
—The Negro has a shorter trunk the cross-section of the chest is morecircular than whites. The pelvis is narrower and longer as it is in an ape.
—The mouth is wide with very thick, large and protruding lips.
—Negro skin has a thick superficial horny layer which resists scratchingand impedes the penetration of germs.
—The Negro has a larger and shorter neck akin to that of anthropoids.
—The cranial sutures are more simple than in the white type and closetogether earlier.
—The ears are roundish, rather small, standing somewhat high and detachedthus approaching the simian form.
—The Negro is more powerfully developed from the pelvis down and thewhite more powerfully developed in the chest.
—The jaw is larger and stronger and protrudes outward which, alongwith lower retreating forehead, gives a facial angle of 68 to 70 degreesas opposed to a facial angle of 80 to 82 degrees for Europeans.
—The hands and fingers are proportionally narrower and longer. Thewrist and ankles are shorter and more robust.
—The frontal and paricial bones of the cranium are less excavated andless capacious. The skull is thicker especially on the sides.
—The brain of the Negro on the average is 9 to 20 % smaller than whites.
—The teeth are larger and are wider apart than in the white race.
—The three curvatures of the spine are less pronounced in the Negrothan in the white and thus more characteristic of an ape.
—The femur of the Negro is less oblique, the tibia (shin bone) morecurved and bent forward, the calf of the leg high and but little developed.
—The heel is broad and projecting, the foot long and broad but slightlyarched causing flat soles, the great toe is shorter than in the white.
—The two bones proper of the nose are occasionally united, as in apes.

I thought you were funny before. But know I know you are.

 

[Tank]

You don't want to talk about evolution

 

[rdean]

You don't want to talk about evolution

Neither do you. Obvious from your racist rant.

 

[Tank]

What you call "racism", is evolution

 

[yidnar]

Part 1, "First Steps," examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to show how our ancestors' brains had begun to change from those of the apes.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 1

In "Birth of Humanity," the second part of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–"Turkana Boy"–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya.

The other programs in the series are Part 1: "First Steps," which looks at how, for millions of years, many species of small-brained human predecessors lived, and Part 3: "Last Human Standing," which examines why, of various human species that once shared the planet, only our kind remains.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 2

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Fascinating series. They found that for 2.2 million years, our ancestors "flatlined" meaning no noticeable development. Then in a period of 200,000 years, the climate in Africa changed from monsoons, to desert to grasslands to humid to arid and mirroring that change was an explosion in human evolution. Perhaps it's why people can live in every environment.

Very interesting.

they have found fossils of apes in china with oblong eye sockets !!!I seriously doubt we all came from the same regions...

 

[flacaltenn]

Great series. I referenced it in the Evolution thread. Now all we got to do is to trace Homo whatever back to the slime mold that the chimps descended from.. With ALL the transistions explained ONLY by Darwinian evolution.. I'd say another 100 years of science ought to do it..

 

[LAfrique]

I wish our die-hard conventional scientists would stick to what is rather always wasting millions on uncertainties. Those millions could be used to combat cancer, AIDS, hunger and make Antarctica a habitable homeland for Israel.

 

[LAfrique]

Very interesting Dean,I have always been fascinated by the emergence of Homo Sapiens and their dominance and eventual elimination of Neanderthals,moreover the mixed breeding of the same,have you any info regarding this..steve.....mind you seeing whats happening in the world today,I really wonder if Neanderthals ever really became extinct LOL

Part 1, "First Steps," examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to show how our ancestors' brains had begun to change from those of the apes.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 1

In "Birth of Humanity," the second part of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–"Turkana Boy"–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya.

The other programs in the series are Part 1: "First Steps," which looks at how, for millions of years, many species of small-brained human predecessors lived, and Part 3: "Last Human Standing," which examines why, of various human species that once shared the planet, only our kind remains.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 2

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Fascinating series. They found that for 2.2 million years, our ancestors "flatlined" meaning no noticeable development. Then in a period of 200,000 years, the climate in Africa changed from monsoons, to desert to grasslands to humid to arid and mirroring that change was an explosion in human evolution. Perhaps it's why people can live in every environment.

Very interesting.

Theliq, funny you would mention the Neanderthals. Days ago I read an article alleging some Europeans with unusual blood-type were descendents of hybrids of the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. Geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical showed skepticism. I tweeted David Reich on August 29, 2011, with my belief that Denisovans and the Neanderthals are result of scientific experimentation.

 

[MikeK]

Cartoons for adults. Entertaining if you buy the concept. Science can't tell us why the globe was covered in ice 20,000 years ago but they are sure they figured out twenty million years of "evolution".

This is a pretty crazy Non-Sequitur. Whether or not anyone can explain ice 20,000 years ago has nothing to do with the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. They are entirely different fields of study. They are "sure" they figured it out thanks to the mountains of evidence, whether from fossils, geology, DNA, or a whole host of other fields.

This is like saying, "They can't cure cancer, but they can make planes fly? I call B.S.!"

You mean like how, in the case of Lucy's Child, they can call 'her' a bi-ped without any fucking leg bones???

Some conclusions are just overwhelmingly logical.

If anthropologists in the distant future unearth a partially preserved metal chassis with four doors, two bucket seats in front, a bench seat in back, a steering wheel, an engine, a three-speed transmission and two axles, I submit they could logically assume it was an automobile and that it had four wheels.

 

[hortysir]

Ever wonder why they call it the "missing link"???




It's missing because there isn't a fucking link between apes and humans.

 

[rdean]

Ever wonder why they call it the "missing link"???




It's missing because there isn't a fucking link between apes and humans.

I don't know. You look like a human, but you have the brain of a chimp.