brother Paul
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We have been told that with Naledi we have “discovered a new member of the human family tree” They already have a nifty name Homo naledi to make it sound semi-human. Already by selected combination of the bones of possibly 15 different individuals (some being possibly human and some being possibly ape) they claim it walked upright (mostly from two or three tiny possibly totally unrelated pieces of hip). They already have a masterfully contrived an artistic image for imprinting in presentations and texts.
We see they already have frankensteined a collection of unrelated bones and arranged them (just so) to look like an individual. In fact they have already begun posting some of the allegedly accurate “reconstructions” (see Nat Geo Oct 2015)…you know, add a little plaster here and a little there and then possibly shave off what does not fit to create a “what it really looked like” deception for further articles and texts.
Regarding Neladi, Berger says “We were facing something that was different from anything else that had been described…”.
AAAS/Science reports, “The skull was globular, like a member of our genus Homo, but the brain was small and primitive. The wrist suggested this species was an adept toolmaker, but its shoulder and fingers showed it still climbed in trees, like more primitive hominins.”
But since this is admitted at this time to be a composite it is being considered by some that the wrist is human while the shoulders and some finger bones are from a different creature, possibly ape (like the skull they attached). Berger even expressed concern that the teeth found may be from more than one type of hominem (possibly human and ape?). Most of the foot fossils are amazingly like modern humans (Sapien) but there are some variances among the trove.
In fact the team suggests “that other humans, perhaps modern humans, deposited the bodies there”! Paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean of Arizona State University, states “… if they date to the last 300,000 years, then it is plausible that early modern humans killed them and stashed them in the cave as part of a ritual.” Other researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Science Daily agree when theyreport, “One of the most intriguing aspects of the discovery is that the bodies appear to have been deposited in the cave intentionally. Scientists have long believed this sort of ritualized or repeated behavior was limited to humans.” I see no reason that this find should change that opinion.
In time it is becoming apparent we keep bumping into indicators of human presence at a very early time, though we have yet to find specific skeletal remains.
Any thoughts?
We see they already have frankensteined a collection of unrelated bones and arranged them (just so) to look like an individual. In fact they have already begun posting some of the allegedly accurate “reconstructions” (see Nat Geo Oct 2015)…you know, add a little plaster here and a little there and then possibly shave off what does not fit to create a “what it really looked like” deception for further articles and texts.
Regarding Neladi, Berger says “We were facing something that was different from anything else that had been described…”.
AAAS/Science reports, “The skull was globular, like a member of our genus Homo, but the brain was small and primitive. The wrist suggested this species was an adept toolmaker, but its shoulder and fingers showed it still climbed in trees, like more primitive hominins.”
But since this is admitted at this time to be a composite it is being considered by some that the wrist is human while the shoulders and some finger bones are from a different creature, possibly ape (like the skull they attached). Berger even expressed concern that the teeth found may be from more than one type of hominem (possibly human and ape?). Most of the foot fossils are amazingly like modern humans (Sapien) but there are some variances among the trove.
In fact the team suggests “that other humans, perhaps modern humans, deposited the bodies there”! Paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean of Arizona State University, states “… if they date to the last 300,000 years, then it is plausible that early modern humans killed them and stashed them in the cave as part of a ritual.” Other researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Science Daily agree when theyreport, “One of the most intriguing aspects of the discovery is that the bodies appear to have been deposited in the cave intentionally. Scientists have long believed this sort of ritualized or repeated behavior was limited to humans.” I see no reason that this find should change that opinion.
In time it is becoming apparent we keep bumping into indicators of human presence at a very early time, though we have yet to find specific skeletal remains.
Any thoughts?
