Convoluted human evolution: new footprints on Crete (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Saturday, September 02, 2017, 14:46 (2390 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: These are dated 5.7 million years ago and compound the confusion about human evolution:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-fossil-footprints-theories-human-evolution.html

DAVID’s comment: This finding suggests there were other branches of the human developmentary bush in the southern part of Europe before the developing types in Africa appeared. Obviously footprints do not tell us about brain size, but it suggests that different body parts developed at different speeds in different hominins, in this instance, feet.

dhw: There seem to be new discoveries every other week, and they all add to the confusion. One thing seems pretty certain, though: if there is a designer, and if his primary purpose was to design homo sapiens, he sure had problems getting there.;-)

I think all God did was open the flood gates of different hominin types for further development. What other family of organisms did this? None! Apes made no changes.


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