An Evolutionary timeline of Homo Sapiens

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A facial reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis, a popular candidate as a common ancestor for modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans (John Gurche)

Scientists share the findings that helped them pinpoint key moments in the rise of our species

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...derstanding-evolution-homo-sapiens-180976807/

In the latter half of the 19th century, a common misinterpretation of Charles Darwin's work was that humans were lineally descended from existing species of apes. It was hard to believe - there was that missing link - but now we know. :)
 

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I read something along these lines not long ago, but forgot where. This article is much more in depth. I need a classroom to study all this :)

I read that many Europeans tested with up to 2% Neanderthal DNA.
 

I don't know why that was such a hard thing to figure out. Yeah, we're humans, a distinct species, but come on, it's evident that we are part of the animal kingdom. The anatomy of a cat, an ape , and a human, all share the same life processes. Religion may have told us one story about ourselves, but our eyes told us a different one.
 
I saved the article to read later because of its length. The magazine itself is something I may subscribe to. Lot's of the kind of things that interest me.
 
Chet said:
I saved the article to read later because of its length. The magazine itself is something I may subscribe to. Lot's of the kind of things that interest me.
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Do you know where this homonin was first discovered?
 
Paleo-anthropologists are still finding remains and trying to piece together the history of mankind. Have you read the book 'The Naked Ape' by Desmond Morris? He states quite clearly that humans are part of the ape species. In the distant past, there were several species of hominids...some died out and some survived.
We are still primitive creatures...some more than others!
 
Rosemarie said:
Paleo-anthropologists are still finding remains and trying to piece together the history of mankind. Have you read the book 'The Naked Ape' by Desmond Morris? He states quite clearly that humans are part of the ape species. In the distant past, there were several species of hominids...some died out and some survived.
We are still primitive creatures...some more than others!
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I'm a great fan of Desmond Morris, having watched him on a zoo programme he presented when I was a child, and Charles Darwin and others on evolution, I've read their books, and love the theories and insights etc.
One thought to puzzle people I'll leave you with, so far as those who examine fossils etc goes is, "Stasis is data"!, (meaning the fact some species remain the same over vast periods of time, whilst other species change). This provides them with inklings about how evolution can proceed, or even appear to cease, where the drivers of evolution are less pronounced or found - a small sea creature, a mollusc I think it was, hadn't changed they found, but if it found its niche, (and conditions in the oceans remained the same this makes/made sense).
 
grahamg said:
I'm a great fan of Desmond Morris, having watched him on a zoo programme he presented when I was a child, and Charles Darwin and others on evolution, I've read their books, and love the theories and insights etc.
One thought to puzzle people I'll leave you with, so far as those who examine fossils etc goes is, "Stasis is data"!, (meaning the fact some species remain the same over vast periods of time, whilst other species change). This provides them with inklings about how evolution can proceed, or even appear to cease, where the drivers of evolution are less pronounced or found - a small sea creature, a mollusc I think it was, hadn't changed they found, but if it found its niche, (and conditions in the oceans remained the same this makes/made sense).
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I'm not sure that I believe that animals have actually evolved in the sense of changing from one thing to another. On the Earth at present, there are different varieties of species, including man.
One of the dangers with scientists is that they have theories and look for evidence to support those theories, instead of gathering data and then coming to a conclusion. It's the same as the police investigating a crime.
Not long ago, there was a programme presented by Alice Roberts, who set out to prove that people left Africa eons ago and spread out across the world. Although there was evidence that seems to prove that this wasn't the case, she refused to accept it. This is the sort of closed attitude which all scientists should avoid. It prevents us opening up to fresh possibilities.
 
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