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Treasure trove of Homo erectus found

Dozens of fossils reveal four primative humans.

A trove of the oldest human skeletal bones outside Africa is reported in Nature this week — a find that will help researchers to improve their understanding of the biology of the 1.8-million-year-old hominins.

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Hogwash. You expect people to believe that civilization began in Africa and the first human marched out of there; leaving behind no artifacts, no cities, no ports, no ships, no stone tools; NOTHING, to substantiate your theory that we are descendants of Africans! Hogwash. We know God created the first humans in northwest Iran, in the Garden of Eden and we spread from there. This is just a group of nappies, trying to convince the world, that humankind migrated out of Africa. Hogwash!

^^^You're insane. Intelligent life began in Kansas...

My thoughts are that man (including H.Erectus) did migrate out of Africa and then spent all of the time "radiating" before reaching Eden at the same time God did and it was H. Erectus et. al. of which the Gods spoke when they said "let us make them like unto us"....

^^^You're insane. Intelligent life began in Kansas...


hey thats great !!!

What is the obsession with Homo erectus? There couldn't be something between H. habilis and H. erectus? H. erectus has to be the first of the genus to migrate out of Africa? I don't think so.

What of H. floresiensis' resemblance to H. habilis and the older Dmanisi specimens? Why did the hobbits retain skeletal traits H. erectus did not?

Identifying the Dmanisi specimens with Homo erectus speaks of a priori reasoning and should be refrained from.

For an article like this, shouldn't the headline writer know how to spell primitive?

^^^You're insane. Intelligent life began in Kansas...


hey thats great !!!

It is far more likely that our human ancestors originally evolved in South-East Asia and thereabouts.
It strains credibility to imagine families (including young children) leaving their tropical homes with year round supply of food stuff and trekking across thousands of miles of desert on the off chance of finding - after how many years - someone else to live. Especially as by the time this is supposed to have happened Asia and Europe and even Australia were already populated.

Identifying the Dmanisi specimens with Homo erectus speaks of a priori reasoning and should be refrained from.

^^^You're insane. Intelligent life began in Kansas...

Thats interesting..!!!

What is the obsession with Homo erectus? There couldn't be something between H. habilis and H. erectus? H. erectus has to be the first of the genus to migrate out of Africa? I don't think so.

For an article like this, shouldn't the headline writer know how to spell primitive?

We know God created the first humans in northwest Iran, in the Garden of Eden and we spread from there.

For an article like this, shouldn't the headline writer know how to spell primitive?

We know God created the first humans in northwest Iran,

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