From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 02:56:54 BST
Sam and all:
Sam said:
Saw this interesting article, about a 'homo sapiens' skull dated 160,000
years ago.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/06/11_idaltu.shtml
Does anyone know the precise relationship between such a species and our own
and, in particular, when 'homo sapiens sapiens' stabilised in biological
terms? (I think it may shed some light on our conversations about levels,
amongst other things).
dmb says:
Interesting article. Thanks. It gave the impression that this 160,000 year
old skull is directly connected to us, to modern humans. It was larger than
we are, but that probably just explains the legends about giants. As Tim
White said, the team leader on this find, "Now the fossil record meshes with
the molecular evidence." I think we have just about found our Adam and Eve.
Interesting that the skulls were polished and decorated for ritual purposes,
no? I think this must be about where the social level really begins. Even
more exciting, they say the area contains the fossil record of our evolution
"from the present to more than six million years ago". Now there's a piece
of real estate that has held its value! Apparently its been a good spot for
quite some time.
Here's a thought; if the social level has been evolving for 160 thousand
years and the intellect has been evolving for, oh, lets be generous and say
3 thousand years, then the third level is more than 50 times older.
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