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Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque turquoise-blue quarry water, lay Rudapithecus. For 10 million years, the fossilized ape waited in Rudabánya, Hungary, to add its story to the origins of how humans evolved. What Rudabánya yielded was a pelvis—among the most informative bones of a skeleton, but one that is rarely preserved. An international research team led by Carol Ward at the University of Missouri analyzed this new pelvis and discovered that human bipedalism—or the ability for people to move on two legs—might possibly have deeper ancestral origins than previously thought.
originally posted by: schuyler
You can't make those kinds of conclusions based on a pelvis. It's still an ape, classified as pithecus. Unless you find stone tools that can be placed with this thing, you can't claim that. And consciousness? Who knows what or how they thought? By itself, it does not change anything previously learned. We still have a long line of fossils that paint an interesting picture of human evolution. Where this one plugs in, we'll have to wait and see. The one thing we have learned over the last few decades is that hominim evolution was much more varied than we originally thought. It's not an unbroken line from simple to complex, but more of a broad, flat series of streams like a river delta where many different variations were tried and died off. It's a great find, nevertheless. Hopefully they find more.
originally posted by: Groot
As far as tools go, we see it in certain apes today. Could be crude wood and stone tools, who is to say? Just speculation.
Our human evolution has been a refinement of several species and I feel we are not done yet. We are still evolving, ever changing as a species.
originally posted by: Groot
originally posted by: schuyler
You can't make those kinds of conclusions based on a pelvis. It's still an ape, classified as pithecus. Unless you find stone tools that can be placed with this thing, you can't claim that. And consciousness? Who knows what or how they thought? By itself, it does not change anything previously learned. We still have a long line of fossils that paint an interesting picture of human evolution. Where this one plugs in, we'll have to wait and see. The one thing we have learned over the last few decades is that hominim evolution was much more varied than we originally thought. It's not an unbroken line from simple to complex, but more of a broad, flat series of streams like a river delta where many different variations were tried and died off. It's a great find, nevertheless. Hopefully they find more.
see it in certain apes today. Could be crude wood and stone tools, who is to say? Just speculation.
originally posted by: 727Sky
There was another verified fossil found in Kenya dating between 5.8 and 6.2 MYA. Dentition says it was an omnivore and also walked on two hind legs as evidenced by the hip ball and socket joint. The find was around 2002 ? and the critter was given a French name of Ariel ?? or millennium man..
originally posted by: openedeyesandears
You might want to watch this video below. Interesting info by Michael Cremo about our ancestry.
originally posted by: Agit8dChop
I think its far more likely we came from aliens than apes.
There's no middle, its just.. apes then humans - where's evidence of the inbetween?
Cyclopia and milder forms of the same developmental disorder result from holoprosencephaly which is a failure of the embryonic forebrain to subdivide properly. (The embryonic forebrain is normally responsible for inducing the development of the orbits.) Chromosome abnormalities (such as trisomy 13) and gene mutations can disrupt this process. So also can certain toxins, some of them found in wild plants.
originally posted by: Groot
Brachiation, or arm swinging, is a form of arboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms.
During brachiation, the body is alternately supported under each forelimb.
This form of locomotion is the primary means of locomotion for the small gibbons and siamangs of southeast Asia. Gibbons in particular use brachiation for as much as 80% of their locomotor activities.
Some New World monkeys, such as spider monkeys and muriquis, were initially classified
Brachiation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiation