Dragon Man

[erik simpson]

“Dragon man” prompts rethinking of Middle Pleistocene hominin
systematics in Asia

https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(23)00155-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666675823001558%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

It's the "lumpers" vs the "splitters" at work again. What it may really
decribe is the "muddle in the middle". As with any science, the more
you learn, the more compliated it gets.

[JTEM]

It's the "lumpers" vs the "splitters" at work again.  What it may really
decribe is the "muddle in the middle".  As with any science, the more
you learn, the more compliated it gets.

Paleo anthropology is no more a "Science" than is Biblical
archaeology.

THE OPPOSITE OF DIVERGENCE!

Over time our species converged. We are more similar to each
other today than we were in the past. This isn't something
that happened overnight. NOBODY is claiming it happened in
a blink.

Well. There are the "Replacement" meatheads but they were
totally debunked by the DNA evidence, long after the
archaeology disproved them. The difference? They accepted
the DNA evidence.

[Primum Sapienti]

Post by erik simpson
“Dragon man” prompts rethinking of Middle Pleistocene hominin
systematics in Asia
https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(23)00155-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666675823001558%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
It's the "lumpers" vs the "splitters" at work again.  What it may really
decribe is the "muddle in the middle".  As with any science, the more
you learn, the more compliated it gets.

"The growing Chibanian hominin fossil record
across Eurasia and Africa is raising a number
of interesting questions related to its
variability and how these different types are
related to each other."

Basically acknowledging a paucity of data...