Well, it's just a suggestion really - but if the "others" have the same warpages, they might not be warpages afterall, depending on how many they find - and if they find ones in other locations. But then there might be a possible "condition" causing the warpages. I'll shut up though.
That's not a bad idea actually Mike, the shutting up that is.
While warping or disease deformities could be raised there would have to be some reason to do so. To discard these you'd have to understand the preparation of the specimens. Getting a high degree of symmetry suggests that crushing etc. isn't a likely cause. The set of characteristics isn't something that any know disease (AFAIK) can cause. In addition, those characteristics do tie in with H. erectus finds elsewhere (I think).
Thus there is no reason for bringing the idea up. You have to have reasons for making things up you know. There don't seem to be any here.
I found an article on the globe and mail (
http://www.globeandmail.com)
that has this odd line:
quote:
For the past several decades, humans have developed the idea that the progression from ape-like ancestors to modern humans was a long, inexorable, orderly march, culminating in the rule of Homo sapiens as the only human for millions of years, Dr. Gee said.
I don't understand why this Dr. Gee would say this since I've read popular articles for years now talking about the 'bushy' nature of the development to H. sapiens. I didn't think the "orderly march" was a picture that had been current for quite awhile. This just accentuates the degree to which the bushyness may have been true. It doesn't, in my limited knowledge, overturn anything really.