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 Who Cares About Any Of This Antiquated, Outdated, Evolutionary Stuff.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 Who Cares About Any Of This Antiquated, Outdated, Evolutionary Stuff.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 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?
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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
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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.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUT-sPs3Ws A Species Odyssey- Pt.1 (1/3) (Watch All 3 Parts)   What happens in Denisova Cave stays in Denisova Cave... until now razibkhan.com/p/what-happens Long before our forebears vanquished and assimilated the Neanderthals and Denisovans, hundreds of thousands of years of the prehistory of modern humans had already occurred within Africa. The fossil at Jebel Irhoud and the latest genetic work both make it clear that the origins of the traits that make anatomically modern humans distinct: the delicate cast of our faces and our long and lean bones, go back more than 300,000 years to disparate regions of Africa. The emergence of H. sapiens more than 200,000 years ago was the culmination of the interaction, admixture and adaptation across these regional evolutionary hearths. Genetics and archaeology are in agreement that the out-of-Africa migration that led to modern humans peopling the whole planet occurred 60,000 years ago, meaning the vast majority of our evolutionary history occurred on our ancestral continent.
But the broader human story goes well beyond just the narrative of our African ancestors, those anatomically modern humans with high foreheads and prominent chins who would go on to occupy six continents. It is also the story of cousins and lost lineages, some of whom persist within our very DNA, while others’ legacy remains only in the archaeological record, their biological lines long since snuffed out. Many of these human cousins were part of a broad Eurasian diaspora that was replenished periodically from African sources, that great reservoir of hominids. The push north and east that began 60,000 years ago was just the last of many migrations outward that had deposited layer upon layer of hominid arrivals across Eurasia for nearly two million years. These earlier migrations gave rise to at least half a dozen different kinds of humans that were there to meet the last African wave, from near cousins who were remnants of earlier groups of modern humans that percolated eastward into Asia, to the more exotic Denisovans and Neanderthals, and finally, strange and distant family members in Southeast Asia who had evolved into dwarf species.
Though the human narrative that led up to our particular modern lineage has been a mostly African story, many of the chapters are to be found in Asia, ultimately left incomplete with the extinction of their protagonists. Today there is only a single human lineage on this planet, but the norm in prehistory was a widely branching and diverse family tree of hominids. Outside of Africa, this was especially true in the southeast corner of Asia, as it stretches out to New Guinea, harboring as many as a half a dozen hominid lineages more than 60,000 years ago.
They found the Hobbits in the ground
In 2004, Australian paleoanthropologists led by the late Michael Morwood discovered a tiny ancient human skeleton on the island of Flores and introduced the world to a new species, the evocatively named Hobbits, or Homo floresiensis. The ensuing debates drew in scientists on four continents, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The find even inspired a bizarre 2012 film Age of the Hobbits that depicts the adventures of vegetarian paleo-humans inhabiting Flores, being cannibalized by predatory “Java Men.” Was this actually a new species? Or perhaps the skeleton discovered by the Australian team was simply diseased and deformed? In the first few years, the argument about the Hobbits was as much geopolitical as it was scientific. The late Indonesian paleoanthropologist Teku Jacob confiscated the fossils from Morwood’s team for several years, returning the remains in a damaged state, resulting in as many news stories about the scientists as about the science.
But eventually, the human drama faded, and the tale of the ancient Hobbits unfolded as a fascinating scientific story that confounded the expectations of many paleoanthropologists about what it meant to be a tool-wielding human. As implied by their name, the Hobbits were startlingly petite, with the first individual unearthed being 110 cm, or 3 feet 6 inches tall. Their brains were incredibly small, almost ape-like. And yet they seemed to have made tools and hunted collaboratively to bring down pygmy elephants. Though the first hard evidence for the Hobbits dates to 200,000 years ago, they flourished on the island as late as 50,000 years ago, just about the same time as the ancestors of modern Southeast Asian humans are supposed to have arrived in the region. Nearly two decades on, despite multiple attempts, no DNA has been extracted from the Hobbits, as the genetic material became too degraded in extremely humid and hot conditions. But enough in terms of fossils and tools has been recovered that most researchers now seem to allow that very peculiar humans did live on Flores, just as Morwood and his colleagues claimed in 2004.
Hobbits and Humans 
A second Africa
And not just on Flores. In 2019, some small teeth and hand bones from the Philippine island of Luzon were discovered dating to as early as 600,000 years ago (with the most recent evidence of occupation again around 50,000 years ago). Because the fossils are so incomplete, little is known about this human population, but just like the Hobbits, they were likely diminutive. Scientists have named this lineage Homo luzonensis: fittingly bland, given how little is known about this hominid aside from the fact that it flourished on Luzon hundreds of thousands of years ago (there is also evidence of human occupation of Sulawesi 200,000 years ago, but no fossils to go along with it).
And there is yet more from Indonesia! Evidence for early modern humans also appears in Sumatra 70,000 years ago, 10,000 years earlier than the expansion out of Africa. And this is not even the only very ancient site attributed to modern humans in Southeast Asia and Australasia. We also find evidence of modern human occupation 65,000 years ago in New Guinea. Because of the orthodoxy that modern humans left Africa only 60,000 years ago, evidence from these settlements has been greeted with skepticism. But neither can both sites be completely dismissed. It seems very probable that a branch of anatomically modern humans was already present in Southeast Asia before our main wave of expansion, even if they left no genetic trace, at least in contemporary populations.
And all this is before we even touch on Denisovans, the ancient human group first discovered in Siberia in 2010 from a single genome. Peking Man, from a lineage of H. erectus indigenous to China notwithstanding, the paleoanthropology of Asia has long been poorly characterized, a terra very nearly incognita. Scientists knew that in Africa there were various hominid populations, from Homo ergaster to various proto-modern groups (and yes, more recently, the diminutive Homo naledi in southern Africa), while Europe and the Middle East were home to Neanderthals and their ancestors. But Asia remained vague, because though primitive tools and a few famous fossils like Peking Man and Indonesia’s Java Man attested to early human presence, a rich enough assemblage of fossils from which to spin a narrative had long failed to materialize.
So it was a total shock on multiple counts when the new science of ancient DNA was the first to shed light on another major human lineage, and from the very edge of human occupation in Siberia’s Denisova Cave no less. It had long been assumed that Neanderthals had lived in the cave because of the presence of their signature style of their tools, so it was no surprise when DNA from this species of human was found at the site. But the new hominid, neither Neanderthal nor modern human, was identified only through DNA from small bone fragments and teeth that weren’t complete enough to provisionally assign to any particular species. In the absence of any identifiable fossils, geneticists gave this lineage the ad hoc label Denisovans.
Because mtDNA is so copious, researchers first sequenced and analyzed this narrow line of ancestry, recapitulating the recent history of human evolutionary genetics. Here they found a surprise, as the mtDNA from a pinky bone discovered in Denisova Cave was from a species more distant from both Neanderthals and modern humans than either was from the other. Could it be that this individual, known to be female because she lacked a Y chromosome, was descended from a H. erectus population?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 |
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Bipedality
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).
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| 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!
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane! My Nigga!
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
Walking with Cavemen
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| 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/
FASCINATING!
