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Post by paulette on Dec 2, 2020 11:09:20 GMT -6
This variation of human had an eeriely familiar looking face and head (greys?) Check out this You Tube:
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Boskop Man
Feb 12, 2021 21:46:33 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by jcurio on Feb 12, 2021 21:46:33 GMT -6
Number 4 sounds like “Bigfoot” ?
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 6, 2021 7:38:50 GMT -6
Paulette, thanks for alerting me to the Boskop Man phenomena. The head-shape as sometimes portrayed can be fanciful rather than factual, but the extremely large cranial capacity of that people seems to be real. Unfortunately the Internet cannot be trusted, even quotes and information attributed to some accepted expert (and it later turns out to be a travesty of what the expert actually said). But reliable information free of aery speculation and distortion of fact must exist. Unless this is another of those uncomfortable subjects pushed safely into the shadows by mainstream science.
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 6, 2021 8:24:56 GMT -6
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Post by paulette on Mar 6, 2021 13:40:54 GMT -6
Bodleyfludes - Thank you for your research into this matter. Once again, I am reminded that things may not be the way they seem here (on the the Internet). Welcome to TEOR. I look forward to reading more from you.
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 7, 2021 16:24:23 GMT -6
Here are some of the Hominin tree conundrums that grab my curiosity, and may be of general interest. Follow my ramblings if you can, comment if you wish. In recent years research into human origins has made great strides and turned up some mystifying anomalies. People like me take great pleasure in the dumfounding of science and subsequent flailing around for a passable stopgap theory to explain it. I find it hard to shrug off a tendency to associate those of high intelligence and scholarship with incessantly, insatiably enquiring minds, the crying need for concrete evidence, and for a broader context to set it all in and have it make sense. But no, science isn’t like that, is it. Not always? It doesn’t like to be questioned, and it doesn’t like having its cherished theories overturned at some later date. If you don’t look you don’t find, especially if you are persuaded against it because of fixed ideas prematurely congealed within respected, established science, and not too many want to rock the boat for fear of queering their pitch for academic advancement. Those who choose to probe the sediments of ages for new finds anyway, are the ones who fill in the gaps, and are cause of the painful rethinks. Over the generations, accumulating evidence, improving techniques and advancing technology had built a convincing picture of likely human lineage. This wonderful picture is constantly being shown incomplete, the new finds sometimes causing fresh uncertainty, rather than confirming what we thought we already knew. In 2004 the little Hobbit came to light on the island of Flores, Indonesia – extinct for, they say, probably 50,000 years. What is his lineage? Perhaps the Hobbit was a reduced stature Homo Erectus, except for the finding of anatomical features absent in Erectus, but found in an earlier primate. Scientists may say sagely use the ‘anything is possible’ butt-shield, but I’m guessing it was still a jolt to anthropologists and palaeontologists when the find was reported. The first indication of yet another diminutive, previously unknown species of human, first came to light in 2007, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Since then, teeth, and foot, hand and limb bones relating to the new species, representing several individuals, have surfaced. Like some other finds of ancient human remains in recent years, it has been commented that curiously, the teeth comprise both modern, and very ancient features. This creature too is said to have gone extinct around 50,000 years BP. There is no convincing theory yet to explain the phenomenon. Until the find, a few decades back, at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, the earliest Homo Sapiens remains were those found in the Rift Valley, in Ethiopia, said to date from around 195,000 years before present. But the Moroccan find has been dated to around 315,000 years BP. This assumes no expert comes along to refute the claim of modern morphology because of some other newly recognized evidence. It is surprising to me that more has not been made in the popular press about this huge leap in time, and of geography. The distance from Omo Kibish, in Ethiopia, where the previous earliest Sapiens remains were found, to Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, is only 500 miles shorter that the distance from Moscow, all the way across Russia to Vladivostok in the far east. (Mercator’s projection causes a distortion of geography, depending how far you are from the equator - you probably know this). The geographical separation of the two finds has to be explained, and what of the huge timespan? For the Great Rift Valley being the supposed cradle of Humanity, the time stretches in the wrong direction, back, it should come forward, surely. It has been said the Denisovan hominin is as different genetically to Neanderthal as we are, but it is assumed those other two species nevertheless had a common ancestor that contributed very little to our own makeup. There is also an idea hovering around that Denisovan DNA includes an ancestral DNA string that could only have come from some other, as yet unidentified, hominin species, evidence for which is not present in Neanderthal remains. If those whom they would destroy the gods first make mad - maybe it is with conundrums like this they do it.
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 7, 2021 16:31:42 GMT -6
PS Sorry about my inexcusably scruffy appearance. I have been looking like this a lot recently. What with the closure of hairdressers and closing of neighborhood restaurants because of covid, and losing the last tooth of my giant-cave-bear bone comb, I've almost lost the will to live.
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