New Species of Human Discovered

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Scientists found fossils from a new species of human that’s 130,000 years old (msn.com)
Scientists from Israel stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while studying fossilized pieces of bone dug up near a cement plant. The fragments from a skull and lower jaw with teeth belonged to a person who lived in the area some 130,000 years ago, but the human is unlike anything we’ve known so far.
The researchers gave it a new name since we’re looking at a different species of human that has never been seen before. They’re calling it Nesher Ramla Homo, after a location southeast of Tel Aviv where it was discovered. This human had particular characteristics unseen in other skeletal findings from the same period. The researchers found that Nesher Ramla Homo had a flat skull, very large teeth, and a jaw bone with no chin. The species may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 100,000 years, and they’re believed to be the precursor to the Neanderthal, the skull of which is seen above. The discovery might upend everything we knew about human evolution on Earth.
 

The earth is over 4 1/5 billion years old. It stands to reason that there are many things we don't know about earth's history - and will never know. Just as since there is an infinite number of universes, we may never know how many other planets have life on them. It's the mystery of time and space.
We just wait and learn as previously unknown things are discovered and realized. Keeps life interesting. :unsure:

And, when you think of earth being well over 4 billion years old, 130,000 years is just a drop in the bucket.
 
fmdog44 said:
Scientists found fossils from a new species of human that’s 130,000 years old (msn.com)
Scientists from Israel stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while studying fossilized pieces of bone dug up near a cement plant. The fragments from a skull and lower jaw with teeth belonged to a person who lived in the area some 130,000 years ago, but the human is unlike anything we’ve known so far.
The researchers gave it a new name since we’re looking at a different species of human that has never been seen before. They’re calling it Nesher Ramla Homo, after a location southeast of Tel Aviv where it was discovered. This human had particular characteristics unseen in other skeletal findings from the same period. The researchers found that Nesher Ramla Homo had a flat skull, very large teeth, and a jaw bone with no chin. The species may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 100,000 years, and they’re believed to be the precursor to the Neanderthal, the skull of which is seen above. The discovery might upend everything we knew about human evolution on Earth.
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Homo longi is also more closely related to us than are the Neanderthals. Scientists are in “discussion” as to whether r not it’s a new species or a Dinosivan.

“ ‘I prefer to call it Homo daliensis, but it’s not a big deal,’ he said. ‘The important thing is the third lineage of later humans that are separate from Neanderthals and separate from Homo sapiens.’ Details are published in three papers in The Innovation.”

I think that the new one from Israel is probably #6 or #7. Why shouldn’t Homo sapiens have “sister species?” What I see as strange is that none of our sister species is still alive today except for the genes they gave us.

Every time a new species is found, scientists have to rethink human evolution because the new species has to be placed somewhere on the tree. And more people get their genomes sequenced to see if they have anything from the newly found one. :)

https://www.theguardian.com/science...e-well-forces-scientists-to-rethink-evolution
 
Dancing_Queen said:
Homo longi is also more closely related to us than are the Neanderthals. Scientists are in “discussion” as to whether r not it’s a new species or a Dinosivan.

“ ‘I prefer to call it Homo daliensis, but it’s not a big deal,’ he said. ‘The important thing is the third lineage of later humans that are separate from Neanderthals and separate from Homo sapiens.’ Details are published in three papers in The Innovation.”

I think that the new one from Israel is probably #6 or #7. Why shouldn’t Homo sapiens have “sister species?” What I see as strange is that none of our sister species is still alive today except for the genes they gave us.

Every time a new species is found, scientists have to rethink human evolution because the new species has to be placed somewhere on the tree. And more people get their genomes sequenced to see if they have anything from the newly found one. :)

https://www.theguardian.com/science...e-well-forces-scientists-to-rethink-evolution
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Maybe the variety explains the bible reference of "made in our image". Not wanting to be politically incorrect , different images got represented.
 
Homo longi is Chinese for Dragon Man. It lived in China for more than 146,000 years ago, during an era of glacial cold.. They believe the skull was a male and 50 years old. The brain was the size of modern mans brain. This skull lay in a well for85 years in the city of Harbin because a Chinese man hid it rom the Japanese soldiers fearing they would steal it.
 
fmdog44 said:
The discovery might upend everything we knew about human evolution on Earth.
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This is interesting, new discoveries like this always are, but the above statement seems to me quite exagerated. I think most scientists understand that we have only bits and pieces of a few ancient human ancestor bones, and so only a very limited understanding of our evolution. New finds like this are no surprise, but as I said quite interesting.
 
Knight said:
Maybe the variety explains the bible reference of "made in our image". Not wanting to be politically incorrect , different images got represented.
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I don't see where the Bible comes into this at all. "Made in our image" can mean anything you want it to mean.
 
Sunny said:
I don't see where the Bible comes into this at all. "Made in our image" can mean anything you want it to mean.
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I do. Genesis 1:26, NIV: is pretty clear that a super natural being billions of years old is responsible for the creation of mankind. Discovery of human remains that have different skeletal structure logically would have a different mold to be shaped from.

"Our image" could explain the differences.
 
I saw that episode. Interesting how the skull to those scientists thoroughly analyzing it lean more towards it being "human," rather than a found prehistoric other ape type animal. Are they overly insistent on discovering proof of such a thing as human change/evolution?
I don't recall--did they find human DNA in it?
 
"Neanderthals may have gone extinct 30,000 years ago, but they still live on inside us. Ever since scientists discovered that Neanderthal DNA comprises roughly 2 percent of the genomes of modern humans of European and Asian heritage, they’ve speculated about how exactly those lingering genes affect us today. Now we’ve found that even though most humans hardly resemble Neanderthals in appearance, their DNA still influences how our genes work today."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...a-still-influences-our-genes-today-180962285/
 
Have modern day apes been tested for "human" DNA? No surprise if ape DNA and human DNA possibly have a similarity, but that would not mean any more than a just similarity. Many animals' behavior are "human-like" but, as far as I know, few have shown the intelligence to learn more than just to mimic human behavior.

Colleen, did your ex-husband act tough by loudly grunting and beating his chest? :D
 
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