Extinct Human Species

What a facinating world we live in. Sorry they didn't mention thegiant skeletons with the double rows of teeth.

Hi Noa.  How've you been?

I had no idea there were so many candidates for our ancestry.  A couple of things occur to me...  Brain size probably doesn't have a lot to do with intelligence.  For example the elephant brain is a lot largerg than ours.  Another factor is that some of the remains might actually be of extraterrestrial origin, especially the one with the large head and small face.  I guess that there's a part of me that even questions whether we, homo sapiens (or homo stupidus, if the mess we've made of our world is any indication) evolved from any earth-originated forms at all.  Still... these finds are fascinating.  I hope someday we can really know something definitive about our origins, as well as our real history on the planet.  All the stories and theories just seem like 90% creativity, stories, and the blind leading the blind.  I guess I'll be satisfied only when we can time-travel back and have a conversation...   then again, that might be a one-way trip.

Our lineage is a bush-not a tree...hehe. No-I didn't know there were so many cousins either. I grew up with dinosaurs being 100's of millions of years old and pretty much everybody agreed and didn't fight that sobering reality but now as an adult, I'm annoyed by the number of people who think the bible is the literal truth and so we're about 5000 years old. And the dinosaurs and all other fossils are just there to "test us"...OMG! What happened to adults? Were there that many people believing the bible stuff back in the 60's when I was a kid? Or did that brand of crazy get re-ignited in the years between?