ztifbob wrote:Sounds more likely to me than the aquatic ape idea.
“Between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago the material culture of western Eurasia changed more than it had during the previous million years. This efflorescence of technological and artistic creativity signifies the emergence of the first culture that observers today would recognise as distinctly human, marked as it was by unceasing invention and variety. During that brief period of 5,000 or so years, the stone tool kit, unchanged in its essential form for ages, suddenly began to differentiate wildly from century to century and from region to region. Why it happened and why it happened when it did constitute two of the greatest outstanding problems in paleoanthropology.”
"Where and how the Cro-Magnons first arose remains unknown. Their appearance, however, coincided with the most bitter phase of the ice age. There is, however, no doubt that they were more advanced, more sophisticated, than the Neanderthals with whom they shared the land. Living in larger and more organized groups than had earlier humans, Cro Magnon peoples spread out until they populated most of the world. Their tools, made of bone, stone, and even wood, were carved into harpoons, awls, and fish hooks. They were presumably able hunters although, as with the Neanderthals, they would also have foraged to gather edible plants, roots, and wild vegetables. The only problem here is that, as far as can be told, the Cro Magnons seem to have arrived on the scene without leaving a single trace of their evolutionary ancestors. Ian Tattersall observed:'When the first Cro Magnons arrived in Europe some 40,000 years ago, they evidently brought with them more or less the entire panoply of behaviors that distinguishes modern humans from every other species that has ever existed.'
'When the first Cro Magnons arrived in Europe some 40,000 years ago, they evidently brought with them more or less the entire panoply of behaviors that distinguishes modern humans from every other species that has ever existed.'
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Spektralscavenger wrote:"there's never been a body of water on Earth which would be safe for humans to live in"
Why? Predators? Some legends speak of times of friendly animals. Those were the days!.
tholden wrote:ztifbob wrote:.....
One thing an outsider notices immediately is that, unlike evolution, the notion that you could cross a chimpanzee and a pig and get a human is testable. Have you tried putting a chimp and a pig in a cage together to see what happens?
Spektralscavenger wrote:@tholden
I guess you reckon the ancient ancestors as weaklings.
Why do you rule out Mars? Transfers are more probable and we already have the Cydonia stuff as plausible evidence. Anyway, by the time Ganymede is deeply explored in situ we may not be here any more![]()
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I wonder if the worldwide legends about antediluvian giants mean giants in the sky or giants roaming around right here. Fossils have the answer.
Chromium6 wrote:An open source paper but makes a lot of sense to me as it combines Linguistics and DNA Haplotype groups over time.
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownl ... erID=31366
tholden wrote:Chromium6 wrote:An open source paper but makes a lot of sense to me as it combines Linguistics and DNA Haplotype groups over time.
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownl ... erID=31366
I don't doubt that the relationships between haplogroups can be calculated. But the 160K year figure is highly questionable.
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