Nope. I won't spoil this one.
I won't even hint at it with a new graphic. I'll run a legacy graphic. But to be certain, there is a new discovery here -- about who we are. . . and from whence we all may have come. Read about, and see it all, at The New York Times, science section, this evening:
. . .Sorting through [the Laotian "Cobra Cave" ancient limestone walls, they found]. . . bones. . . [and,] the scientists found a surprise: a molar that resembled a human child’s tooth. But some features of the molar suggested it was not quite human. “We were so amazed and so excited,” Dr. Shackelford said. . . .
They were even more delighted when geologists examined the cave wall to determine the age of the tooth. The tooth itself was too small to analyze, but the researchers found fossils and minerals nearby that contained radioactive elements that broke down at a regular pace. By measuring those elements, the researchers estimated the tooth was between 164,000 and 131,000 years old. . . .
In other words, the Cobra Cave tooth is about twice as old as the oldest modern humans that Dr. Shackelford and her colleagues have found in the region. The tooth’s great age hinted that it belonged to an extinct relative of modern humans. But which one?. . . .
You will have to go read the NYT, to find out. Smile. . . g'night.
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2 comments:
Was going to send it on but, I'm glad you saw that (and posted).
I read somewhere (old timers' kicking in) that we have only unearthed about 10% of all the previous human cultures that have existed. Even if that is way off; there still means a lot more to be found. Fascinating..just fascinating.
Indeed. I am pretty certain that we know only a tiny bit of how we came to be, here -- and how or why we became. . . self aware.
And that's even before reading the latest DoD reports on UFOs. . . (kidding -- mostly). . . but only. . . mostly.
Grin -- Namaste. . . great stuff.
Up next?
It seems my long time lil' buddie, Martin Shkreli, is as of this morning at a half-way house in NYC area. . . hilarious!
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