MrDarwin

Here's coverage from sciencedaily.com:

160,000-year-old Fossilized Skulls From Ethiopia Are Oldest Modern Humans

and the original press release upon which all these articles are ultimately based:

160,000-year-old fossilized skulls uncovered in Ethiopia are oldest anatomically modern humans

MrDarwin

In the original press release, at least, the subspecific epithet (correctly) does not have an accent, although the word upon which the epithet is based does have an accent. So no, nomenclature rules have not been relaxed, any more than have the spelling rules.

Gringo

I see many of these articles stating that these three fossil finds are another "nail in the coffin" for multi-regionalism. Some such as Asfaw say that the Out of Africa model has now been tested and that we can conclusively say that Neanderthals went extinct. How do these fossils prove that recent out of Africa people did not interbreed with those already there? Because the y-line and mtDNA say so?

That's only 2 lines is many millions. The y-line suggests a common paternal ancestor just 60,000 years ago, but noone is saying that we are not descended from other homo sapiens who had different (and now extinct) y-lines of that period. The only place where multi-regionalists disagree with the Out of Africa model is in its exclusion of the possibility of admixture between African, European and Asian archaic humans. Unlike the Out of Africa model the media is swallowing, Chris Stringer's Out of Africa model doesn't exlude this possibility, but he states that its negligible. Future DNA studies and fossil finds may shed more light on it and but as of yet, the multi-regionalists still have a lot of vitality and by no means has the final nail been hammered into their coffin

ps418

Well, I spoke to God on the phone this morning, and he has assured me that he was only referring to his believers, and that he was embarassed by your incompetent critique. He also told me he was actually quite impressed with the wisdom of atheists, and was beginning to question his own existence. Or maybe that wasn't a true communication from God after all.

While talking snakes and magic fruit are indeed rare, there are plenty of talking (and typing) fruits in this here world.

Patrick


Patrick

Primordial Groove

I have nothing scientific to add. My critique is the fox news article. (AP actually)

But, what did Tim White actually say?

The words arose and evolved are not the same thing and give different meanings.

Magus55

And where did those basic laws of nature come from? Is there a senate that presides over the universe and writes all these laws for which the universe follows?

Godless Dave

That makes no less sense than what you believe.

Monkey

Laws are descriptions, not prescriptions.

Demigawd

All you've done here is switch from a monotheistic stance to a polytheistic one. Do attempt to educate yourself.

MrDarwin

Yes, it's called "reality".