Ape skulls? Human? Hominid?

The thing is we're not really looking for something thats half ape and half man. More for something thats half ancestor (before the major split) and half man. At least thats what id be looking for. But there again we cant really tell how rapid the changes occured, an article in nature explained how our skulls could have changed shape radically due to just one mutation weakening our jaw bones and possible allowing the brain to grow larger. This means intermediates as such could be hard to come by.Unseuledit to change journal name from science to nature (hope thats right)This message has been edited by Unseul, 05-08-2004 10:49 AM

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....

And the fact they keep turning up is a good thing, but as you said theres still not enough to untangle all the lineages yet. Hopefully with more time and more excavations (and luck) we'll get a more clear picture.Unseul

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....

Heh, i've read in one or two articles that their beginning to consider renaming humans, chimps are almost at the point of entering the current defintion of Homo Sapiens (I'm not too sure on the Homo part, but even just the sapiens would be amusing). Course until they start walking around on two legs most the time we're probably safe, but i dont think it would take too much more in other realms (language, toolmaking, even some evidence of having homes).UnseulThis message has been edited by Unseul, 05-09-2004 06:30 PM

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....

In taxonomy, as far as i am aware, it is not the oldest genus, name that is taken, but the first one to be named so, so the oldest name of a genus.Homo was classified long before Australopithecenes. The first one to name a species wins basically.Unseul

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....