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Chinese human fossils unlike any known species

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Chinese human fossils unlike any known species - life - 14 March 2012 - New Scientist




(they could just be early human "knockoffs" :rolleyes
  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    I'm always scouring the Internet for relatives.

    RE: quote below from article, I find this very cool. That is eerily close to the beginning of recorded history and could conceivably be mentioned in folktales and other forms of oral history.
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/...n-species.html

    Some of the newly described fossils are just 11,500 years old, suggesting that unlike Neanderthals they made it through the height of the last ice age.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Ken - it just means that if they were mating, they were both branches of human species. Neanderthals were also human and bred with other forms of humans often enough that we still retain some of their DNA.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    I was taught that if two living beings could mate and have offspring, they were of the same species.
    We were crossbred with aliens. Everyone knows that.
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    Many different species that are compatible have been bred together, for instance, the lion, and the tiger, making a liger...


    Or the horse, and the ass - making a horse's ass...:rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    I was taught that if two living beings could mate and have offspring, they were of the same species.

    I guess it means whatever the hell they say it means now.

    You should have been taught that if their OFFSPRING could reproduce, they were of the same species. Mules are a good example of this...With donkeys and horses being cross-bred, the resulting mules being sterile.

    However, even this is wrong in some instances...Bob cats and lynx can mate and their offspring can reproduce. Same thing for grizzly and polar bears, which create "pizzly" bears which can reproduce.

    In other words, the lines that seperate species are often blurred.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      You should have been taught that if their OFFSPRING could reproduce, they were of the same species. Mules are a good example of this...With [asses] and horses being cross-bred, the resulting [horse-asses] being sterile.<snip>
      For example, Rush Limbaugh never had any children.
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    And speaking of the perils of inbreeding... :rolleyes:
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