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Ancient Cretans had Feet 2017-09-03 02:15:04 Post No. 9145292
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>Fossil footprints laid down more than five million years ago in what is now Crete could belong to a previously unknown primate, and perhaps even an ancient hominin — an animal more closely related to humans than to chimps.
>Per Ahlberg at Uppsala University in Sweden and his colleagues identified more than 50 fossil traces in an area less than 4 metres square. The animal responsible for the prints — left some 5.7 million years ago — was probably claw-less, bipedal, walked on the soles of its feet, and had other hominin-like characteristics.
>The authors say that the interpretation of these footprints as belonging to a hominin is controversial, because Crete is some distance from all other sites featuring hominins of a similar age, which have been found in Chad, Ethiopia and Kenya. If the animal that made the prints was not a hominin, it must have been a previously unknown non-hominin primate that evolved a human-like foot independently.
Human polygenetic origin confirmed?
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>>9145292
>polygenetic origin
eh?
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>>9145320
No. But if it DOES turn out to be a hominin, then faster radiation than previously theorized would be on the table.
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>>9145292
I really don't buy the 'convergent evolution' explanation. I mean, a biped ape/primate unrelated to hominins with nearly human-like feet would likely belong to a relatively big taxomic group, which would certainly leave some traces behind. But nothing in the fossil record indicates the existence of such a group of creatures.
This is really something.
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>>9145292
>Human polygenetic origin confirmed?
Are you retarded?
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>>9145292
>Ancient Cretans had Feet
CLAMS GOT LEGS!
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>>9145292
The mediterranean was dry during that time period. Could be that a buch of hominids migrated along the nile from kenya and ended up in crete.
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>>9146180
they're saying that distance is probably too far for them to have got at that time so its unusual
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>>9145292
this happened 5.7 million years ago so is irrelevant to human evolution
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>>9146832
kek, you almost got me there.
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>>9146068
>Clams have legs!
This is news? Checkit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i62YdabvAHo
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>>9145292
>Out of Africa theory slowly falling apart
Glorious.
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Suddenly this line makes too much sense.
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