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19 Feb 2009, 9:00 pm

About 20,000 generations from the previous version of our species.

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19 Feb 2009, 10:18 pm

The classification of a species as "human" or "non-human" as someone remarked, is totally artificial and subject to the prejudices of the classifier. Life is a continuous phenomenon with innumerable variations that either succeed or fail to be in line with succeeding generations. Each multicellular creature is a composite of genetic material and co-operative species. The human body is said to have ten times more non-human cells actively participating in its sustenance than human cells. Life is a dynamic continuous network existing from some primal organism into the present and to slice it up into imaginary categories is a fallacious and contentious paradigm. The originator of this thread has persistently delighted in created unwarranted contentions of discussion more for his personal delight in muddying intellectual waters than actually seeking some clarification of issues.



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19 Feb 2009, 11:13 pm

I don't even pretend to know, or comprehend it. :doh:



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19 Feb 2009, 11:17 pm

twoshots wrote:
MR_BOGAN wrote:
5 hundred thousand years to go from Homo hieaburgers to homo sapien.

First of all, what the devil is a "hieaburger"? Second of all, I do believe that Heidelbergensis is classified as being the ancestor of Neanderthals, but that they come after the last common ancestor of both neanderthals and sapiens, regardless of what the picture says. I wish I could find my physical anthro book about now :(


Sorry I meant homo hamburger.

Homo hamburger has devolved from homo sapien and lives off fast food. :P



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19 Feb 2009, 11:18 pm

twoshots wrote:
MR_BOGAN wrote:
5 hundred thousand years to go from Homo hieaburgers to homo sapien.

First of all, what the devil is a "hieaburger"? Second of all, I do believe that Heidelbergensis is classified as being the ancestor of Neanderthals, but that they come after the last common ancestor of both neanderthals and sapiens, regardless of what the picture says. I wish I could find my physical anthro book about now :(


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