Dmanisi Skull Fossil Heavily Prunes Back the Human Family Tree

Started by jimmy olsen, October 21, 2013, 11:15:20 PM

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October 23, 2013, 11:44:52 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 22, 2013, 09:26:58 AM
mouth-breed

:lol:

Sounds like something you tell a really dumb girlfriend...
and the horse you rode in on

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March 02, 2014, 08:42:50 AM
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March 02, 2014, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 23, 2013, 11:39:50 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
Whoever named the ancestor of humanity "homo erectus" obviously did not have pre-teen kids prone to giggling.  :P
Wasn't he Dutch? May not have the same meaning in that language.
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
Whoever named the ancestor of humanity "homo erectus" obviously did not have pre-teen kids prone to giggling.  :P

Yes, being Dutch would make words in Latin change their meaning.

Erectus means upright in Latin, oppreijst in dutch I think, which I think literally translates to "has stood up".
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#18
March 02, 2014, 02:02:22 PM
Monkey bones?



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March 03, 2014, 05:43:45 PM
Quote from: Viking on March 02, 2014, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 23, 2013, 11:39:50 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
Whoever named the ancestor of humanity "homo erectus" obviously did not have pre-teen kids prone to giggling.  :P
Wasn't he Dutch? May not have the same meaning in that language.
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
Whoever named the ancestor of humanity "homo erectus" obviously did not have pre-teen kids prone to giggling.  :P

Yes, being Dutch would make words in Latin change their meaning.

Erectus means upright in Latin, oppreijst in dutch I think, which I think literally translates to "has stood up".

Not to defend Timmay, but I think he meant that in Dutch, the word for a hard-on might not be "erection", not that being Dutch would change the meaning of a Latin word.

KRonn

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March 04, 2014, 08:33:58 AM Last Edit: March 04, 2014, 08:36:49 AM by KRonn
I'm kind of surprised that they're only now giving less significance to minor differences, such as brain size, which occurs in modern humans and chimps (as the first thread starter article points out). Before they considered the differences to be marks of different species. I would have thought this would have earlier been a bigger and more important consideration before  making determinations of a different species of early human.

Malthus

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March 04, 2014, 09:10:30 AM
Quote from: Viking on March 02, 2014, 09:03:12 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 23, 2013, 11:39:50 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
Whoever named the ancestor of humanity "homo erectus" obviously did not have pre-teen kids prone to giggling.  :P
Wasn't he Dutch? May not have the same meaning in that language.
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
Whoever named the ancestor of humanity "homo erectus" obviously did not have pre-teen kids prone to giggling.  :P

Yes, being Dutch would make words in Latin change their meaning.

Erectus means upright in Latin, oppreijst in dutch I think, which I think literally translates to "has stood up".

It was a joke you guys are taking way too seriously.  :lol:

In English, "homo" is slang for "homosexual" (and "erectus" sounds like "erection"), but I'm pretty sure that wasn't true back in the 1890s when this fossil was named, even in English.  ;)
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March 04, 2014, 01:27:47 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 04, 2014, 09:10:30 AM
In English, "homo" is slang for "homosexual" (and "erectus" sounds like "erection"), but I'm pretty sure that wasn't true back in the 1890s when this fossil was named, even in English.  ;)

Made me think back to grade school PE classes when we were told to stand erect. When a few of us sniggered the teacher was genuinely perplexed.
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