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March 25, 2006
Another Homo Cranium Found
I'm a little late on this but afarensis, complete with picture, and John Hawks have accounts of the discovery of a new Middle Pleistocene hominid fossil cranium found at Gawis in Ethiopia. The most interesting part of the press release announcing the find is,
The new cranium from Gawis appears to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and later Homo sapiens and may be sampling a single lineage. At the discovery site and nearby areas, significant archaeological collections of Late Acheulean stone tool-making tradition and numerous fossil animals were found, opening a window into an intriguing and important period in the development of modern humans.
And, as afarensis correctly points out, the most interesting thing about the MSMBC story of the find is their poll that when I saw it said 22% of the readers who took the unscientific poll checked the box "I don't accept any evidence that humans arose through evolution." The good news is that this is a much lower number than I might have expected. The bad news is that it is not in the background noise where it belongs. I guess these folks now see two gaps in which the gods did their work rather than only one or they just think the gods did it all at once. Either way, nothing will convince them not to look away at something else every time this overwhelming evidence is presented.
By the way, there are several other candidates for Homo erectus/Homo sapiens intermediate types.
Posted by Duane Smith at March 25, 2006 6:22 PM | Read more on Paleoanthropology |
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