Nesher largely occupies the site of the Palestinian village Balad Al-Sheikh which was depopulated in 1948. So Balad Al-Sheikh Ramla , maybe?
Which Indian tribe’s land have you built your high ground on?
New type of ancient human discovered in Israel
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#12Nesher largely occupies the site of the Palestinian village Balad Al-Sheikh which was depopulated in 1948. So Balad Al-Sheikh Ramla , maybe?
Which Indian tribe’s land have you built your high ground on?
I don’t understand this comment. What does Indian tribal land have to do with the naming of this discovery?
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#13We'll see if the inflation in ancient human species stands up to scrutiny. Here's a great TED Talk about dinosaur species being mistakenly identified because 'scientists have egos': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI&t=102s (well worth a watch, it's a great story)
How is it possible to indentify a new species from just a skull fragment and jawbone? Would there need to be multiple similar bones to rule out the possiblity of a genetic outlier? And even then it's not like there isn't fairly significant variance in bone structure between different populations of human today. Can we really say from two bits of bone that it's a different species?
I have no knowledge of anthropology but it just seems a bit crazy to me that from few bits of bone we can declare we found a new species.
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#14Since these people’s activity in the area predates any other known settlement, I guess the Israeli government has no choice but to grant citizenship to any descendants of the pre-Neanderthal diaspora automatically.
This is not the place for political/culture wars.
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#15We'll see if the inflation in ancient human species stands up to scrutiny. Here's a great TED Talk about dinosaur species being mistakenly identified because 'scientists have egos': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI&t=102s (well worth a watch, it's a great story)
How is it possible to indentify a new species from just a skull fragment and jawbone? Would there need to be multiple similar bones to rule out the possiblity of a genetic outlier? And even then it's not like there isn't fairly significant variance in bone structure between different populations of human today. Can we really say from two bits of bone that it's a different species? I have no knowledge of anthropology…
This isn't a criminal trial, with failsafe rules about doubt.
There are very few generic outliers. They do exist, but at the same time, the chance that the next person you meet will be 2.40m tall is insignificant.
The argument is stronger for the past, because generic outliers tend to have worse health than the average and have worse chances of reaching adulthood, so if you find a part of the skeleton of a single adult, the chance that it's someone who's half/twice as tall as the rest of the population is even smaller than for today.
https://www.mindprod.com/image/math/livinghistogram.jpg shows an entire class. They could have had a generic outlier among the pupils, but most people are near the average, see?
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#16Since these people’s activity in the area predates any other known settlement, I guess the Israeli government has no choice but to grant citizenship to any descendants of the pre-Neanderthal diaspora automatically.
This is not the place for political/culture wars.
Or humor apparently
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#17I've read that there are "genetic bottlenecks" in human DNA that imply that one point in time, the population of homo sapiens consisted of only a couple thousand individuals. It stands to reason that there are tons of human subspecies that didn't make it.
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#18I've read that there are "genetic bottlenecks" in human DNA that imply that one point in time, the population of homo sapiens consisted of only a couple thousand individuals. It stands to reason that there are tons of human subspecies that didn't make it.
More interestingly, there were several bottlenecks over the course of our evolution and we could have gone extinct at multiple points.
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#19Palestinians