I'LL ADD MORE PHOTOS, PAIGES WITH DESCRIPTIONS, CAPTIONS, AND COMMENTS TO THIS POST LATER. IN THE MEANTIME, LOOK AT OUR HOMININ ANCESTORS AND READ ABOUT THEM (AT LEAST THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCOVER SO FAR). PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, THOUGH, THAT THE LINE OF DESCENT LEADING TO US (MODERN HUMANS; HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS) WAS NOT A DIRECT ONE (MANY BRANCHES SPROUTED FROM DIFFERING LINEAGES). IN OTHER WORDS, THROUGHOUT HOMININ EVOLUTION THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS SPECIES LIVING WITHIN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT AT THE SAME TIME COMPETING WITH ONE ANOTHER FOR THE SAME RESOURCES AND SURVIVING OR GOING EXTINCT UNTIL HOMO SAPIENS EVOLVED AND ELIMINATED ALL OTHER COMPETITORS (HOMO ERECTUS, HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS, HOMO NEANDERTHALIS, ETC).
Loretta Sanchez, This Is All In The Past. Who Cares About Any Of This Antiquated, Outdated, Evolutionary Stuff. Hey, Loretta, The Past Directly Effects The Future. For Instance, Loretta, Just About All Of The Significant Physical, Physiological, Biological, Biomechanical, Anatomical, Psychological Adaptations That Humans Now Possess Were Inherited From Our Now Extinct Hominin Ancestors. That Is, The Genetic Foundation For The Traits That Make Us Humans Who We Are And Allow Us To Survive And Reproduce Randomly Evolved Among Our Hominin Ancestors And Were Eventually Selected For Among The Homo Sapien Species And Thus Passed Onto Us. So, If It Were Not For The Past (Our Human Ancestors Of The Evolutionary Past) We Would Not Be Here Today. (This Is Why All Of This Is So Relevant And Fascinating, Loretta.)
Loretta Sanchez, This Is All In The Past. Who Cares About Any Of This Antiquated, Outdated, Evolutionary Stuff. Hey, Loretta, The Past Directly Effects The Future. For Instance, Loretta, Just About All Of The Significant Physical, Physiological, Biological, Biomechanical, Anatomical, Psychological Adaptations That Humans Now Possess Were Inherited From Our Now Extinct Hominin Ancestors. That Is, The Genetic Foundation For The Traits That Make Us Humans Who We Are And Allow Us To Survive And Reproduce Randomly Evolved Among Our Hominin Ancestors And Were Eventually Selected For Among The Homo Sapien Species And Thus Passed Onto Us. So, If It Were Not For The Past (Our Human Ancestors Of The Evolutionary Past) We Would Not Be Here Today. (This Is Why All Of This Is So Relevant And Fascinating, Loretta.)
Geoffrey Miller Retweeted Yaniv (((Erlich)))
In 10 years, genetics will reveal the complete family tree for all humans, back to the Pleistocene. Will we be ready for its implications?
PaleoAnthropology+ Retweeted
Gigantopithecus was the biggest ape to have ever lived!! (Photo Russel Ciochon and Bill Munns)
"Fly Crippin' Like The Legend Of Big Foot!...Make Ya Bitch Look!" - Tc (Terry) Bradshaw!
WATCH THIS
WATCH THIS
And my only book with full frontal nudity on the cover...okay in America because here most people believe we have no relation to those creatures.
Back to Darwin, @michaelshermer’s ‘Why Darwin Matters’ focuses on the narrower issue of the still (shamefully) raging arguments against evolution; and in particular where such thinking infringes policy and curriculums. A great account of some pivotal trials on the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUT-sPs3Ws A Species Odyssey- Pt.1 (1/3) (Watch All 3 Parts) http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-origin-of-our-species.html?utm_source=tw-20151213&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=general#sthash.Ivkb2WpR.uxfshttp://ihavenotv.com/the-lost-tribes-of-humanity-horizonThe Human Story: Where We Come From And How We Evolved |
Bipedality
NATURAL SELECTION AND LATER, TO A GREATER EXTENT, SEXUAL SELECTION LED TO THE INCREASE IN HUMAN BRAIN SIZE. OUR HOMINID COUSINS' (CHIMPANZEE, BONOBO, GORILLA, ORANGUTAN) BRAIN SIZES REMAINED RELATIVELY THE SAME SIZE OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR EVOLUTION DUE TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT REMAINING STABLE (THE SAME). HOWEVER, HUMAN BRAIN SIZED INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY OVER THE PAST 3 MILLION YEARS AS WE BEGAN TO DEVELOP A MORE SOPHISTICATED CULTURE AND HAVE A GREATER IMPACT ON OUR ENVIRONMENT (ALTERING IT), WHICH THEN CREATED SELECTION PRESSURES DEMANDING FOR HIGHER INTELLIGENCE.
Our Brains Are 99% Similar to the Chimpanzee Brain. What's in the Other 1%?
Modern chimp brains share similarities with ancient hominids @ScienceNews https://www.sciencenews.org/article/modern-chimp-brains-share-similarities-ancient-hominids …
THE FOLLOWING IS A COMMENT DIRECTED AT A YOUTUBE USER, BUT I FELT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO PUT HERE, SO THAT YOU CAN GET AN IDEA OF HOW WE EVOLVED AND WHO WE EVOLVED FROM.
How Do You Reconcile What You Know About Human Evolution With Your Religious Beliefs? Like, How Do You Come To Terms With The Fact That The Human Mind And Body Evolved Over Millions Of Years From Earlier Hominid Forms Of The Brain And Body, While At The Same Time Holding The Belief That God Created All Of Humanity Less Than 10,000 Years Ago?
There Is No Missing Link In Human Evolution. That Was A Myth Promulgated By The Media. All Humans Evolved From A Series Of Hominin Ancestors And Not In Direct Succession (Numerous Hominins Lived At The Same Time; Some Went Extinct And Some Survived). As For Blood Types, All Humans Have Inherited Them From Non-Human Primate Ancestors And Some Of These Blood Types Are Incompatible With One Another (They Create Antibodies That Attack Other Blood Type's Antigens). This Is Why Your Rh Negative Blood Type, Which Evolved For Some Environmental Reason, Attacks Rh Positive Fetuses (Your Blood Type's Antibodies Perceive The Fetus As A Foreign Body, So Your Immune System Kicks In And Attacks It).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3QIk__aJw NOVA | Becoming Human |
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
I HAD TO TAME MY CHiMP!
NATE!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170421084917.htm
FASCINATING!
Bambi! |
NATE!
Neanderthal Skeleton |
It's A Bird, It's A Plane! My Nigga!
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
Walking with Cavemen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwc03uAQnxs Homo Sapiens: The Birth of Humanity HD | NOVA Documentary |
AFTER READING THIS HOW COULD YOU EVER BELIEVE THAT A GOD OR GODS CREATED US (HUMANS)? ISN'T IT EASY TO SEE THAT WE EVOLVED OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS FROM HUMAN-LIKE AND HUMAN PREDECESSORS? NO, IT'S NOT EASY FOR YOU TO SEE BECAUSE YOU'RE UNEDUCATED (YOU HAVEN'T BEEN EXPOSED TO THESE THEORIES), YOU'RE BRAINWASHED, YOU'RE IN DENIAL, YOU'RE CLOSE-MINDED, AND YOUR HUMAN MIND ISN'T INCLINED TO UNDERSTAND OR BELIEVE IN SCIENCE (EVOLUTION AND GENETICS). YOUR HUMAN MIND IS INCLINED TO UNDERSTAND AND BELIEVE IN MYTHS (GOD AND RELIGION). THIS IS WHY YOU CONTINUE TO HOLD YOUR FLAWED, FALSE, FALLACIOUS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. AND THAT'S WHY I CONTINUE TO FEEL SORRY FOR YOU!
WE ARE THE PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION AND THE BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, PHYSICS, ETC. RELATED PROCESSES THAT IT ENCOMPASSES. GOD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR CREATION BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T EXIST. WELL, HE EXISTS, BUT ONLY IN YOUR LOW IQ, UNEDUCATED MIND AND THAT'S BECAUSE GOD IS A PRODUCT OF YOUR LOW IQ, UNEDUCATED MIND (HE'S JUST AN ILLUSION CREATED BY THE EVOLVED PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF THE BRAIN).
When Neanderthals Replaced Us #Qafzeh #Skhul http://discovermagazine.com/2016/june/15-when-neanderthals-replaced-us … via @DiscoverMag
DA BO OWN CALL LECTA. DA REEL BO OWN CALL LECTA.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/remains-of-humanlike-ancestors-found-in-south-africa-1441875600
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-this-extinct-human-species-commit-homicide1/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/remains-of-humanlike-ancestors-found-in-south-africa-1441875600
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-this-extinct-human-species-commit-homicide1/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170421084917.htm
FASCINATING!