tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post2078748420500096878..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Multiple species of early HomoDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-26127566056127197062012-08-11T06:26:12.414+03:002012-08-11T06:26:12.414+03:00John Hawks seems to caution much the same view:
...John Hawks seems to caution much the same view: <br /><br />http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/habilis/er-62000-comment-2012.html<br /><br />"I think it is premature to sort these East African fossils into four or more species on the basis of one or two new specimens". <br /><br />Interestingly he has been talking to Lee Berger, a scientist not commanding much respect these days. But years ago he delivered a paper on regional diversity in Australopithecus. It would be interesting to see that paper resurrected.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-10812770248749530932012-08-10T06:13:33.800+03:002012-08-10T06:13:33.800+03:00"The new fossils confirm the presence of two ..."The new fossils confirm the presence of two contemporary species of early Homo, in addition to Homo erectus, in the early Pleistocene of eastern Africa". <br /><br />Or one very geographically variable species?terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-10244021155517426272012-08-10T05:52:56.146+03:002012-08-10T05:52:56.146+03:00The Hominid Hunting post does a much better job of...The Hominid Hunting post does a much better job of explaining the context of why this find is important than any of the other links. <br /><br />I'd just love to see side by side artists representations of the three Homo species that apparently coexisted: Habilis (aka Lucy), Rudolfensis (the parallel species whose existence of the new finds favors), and Erectus (e.g. Java Man). <br /><br />Pictures limited merely to reassembled bones are hard for people who haven't done graduate work in this kind of thing to translate mentally into how a living breathing hominid of that species would look. How can someone like myself imagine what these skulls would look like with flesh on them when I have trouble doing that for even plain vanilla Homo Sapiens?andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.com