A fragment of upper jaw and a skull found in Africa are helping rewrite the textbook on how mankind came to be millions of years ago.
Gone is the step-wise theory of one ancient species, Homo habilis, dying off as another, Homo erectus, takes over -- to give rise later to modern-day Homo sapiens.
In its place are two fossils uncovered in Kenya that appear to show habilis and erectus lived together in close proximity for more than half a million years, about 1.5 million years ago.
(Via The Anomalist.)
And on a nominally related note, here's a video of a Japanese television audience shocked to discover a man with a vestigial "tail":
Anyone seen "Jacob's Ladder"?
2 comments:
Lonnnng time ago. Oddly enough, it reminds me of The Last Temptation of Christ. And that one episode of TNG. That whole gig about living a lifetime in moments and all...
I loved that movie. Although it was purportedly to be about the CIA experiments drugging troops with hallucinogens I was very moved with the scene ivolving the death of the little boy. The living a lifetime in moments.(and who can argue that on a cosmic scale we don't) is the same in the classic short "Incident At Owl Creek". If you haven't seen either I recommend both highly.
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