Great discussion. They call everything into question, as they should, except: Africa as the origination of all the "species" of humanoids. There may still be reason to believe that Africa is the only site of evolution of new "species", but we'd been told that migration out of Africa most likely began 50,000 years ago. Clearly, if we accept that Dmanisi is in the "human" family, this requires that its migration occurred 1.8 million years earlier, why should we immediately exclude non-African evolution of humanoid species? 1.8 miilion is long enough to cook up another species or two.
They've always existed together. There's more diversity in the rest of the human body than these skulls. Why would people have variations in skulls? I can observe differences between them every day. Why do the reconstructions always have body hair, have they found hair in these sites?
I’m simply thinking that it is just a person who is 1st generation mixed of the other two species so how it’s form will eventually look had not fully taken shape! Have you ever seen the Arthdal Chronicles on Netflix?!
Speciation standards are quite tricky. Something that has 1 chance in 1 million to happen, only needs to happen once! And in a time scale of millions of years, such as hominin evolution, this can produce surprising results!
Very interesting.
Now that was the most common sense discussion on evolution I have ever seen !!!!
Thanks for posting
Thank you for this! For some reason the Dmanisi skulls do not get anywhere near the attention they warrant.
An honest discussion on human ancestry and evolution. Unfortunately only a few have seen this.
Brilliant. The hypothesis about the toothless man is novel to me; thought-provoking.
Brilliant analysis!
Thank you for posting this clear, concise and provocative discussion. It greatly helped my personal understanding of the current science.
Great discussion. They call everything into question, as they should, except: Africa as the origination of all the "species" of humanoids. There may still be reason to believe that Africa is the only site of evolution of new "species", but we'd been told that migration out of Africa most likely began 50,000 years ago. Clearly, if we accept that Dmanisi is in the "human" family, this requires that its migration occurred 1.8 million years earlier, why should we immediately exclude non-African evolution of humanoid species? 1.8 miilion is long enough to cook up another species or two.
They've always existed together. There's more diversity in the rest of the human body than these skulls. Why would people have variations in skulls? I can observe differences between them every day.
Why do the reconstructions always have body hair, have they found hair in these sites?
I’m simply thinking that it is just a person who is 1st generation mixed of the other two species so how it’s form will eventually look had not fully taken shape! Have you ever seen the Arthdal Chronicles on Netflix?!
Speciation standards are quite tricky. Something that has 1 chance in 1 million to happen, only needs to happen once! And in a time scale of millions of years, such as hominin evolution, this can produce surprising results!
I really liked the comment on neo-liberalism in the end! :)