World’s oldest hominin skeleton found

[Ed Anger]

homo polonis

They are going to find an ancient rock with outraged scribbling on it.

[Eddie Teach]

I think you're missing the point here, Tampax. The problem isn't creationists, the problem is Americans. Americans cannot be tolerated.

I don't believe Tamas went to school in America.

Also, it's Lady Gaga fans who can't be tolerated.

[Razgovory]

As a future history teacher, you need to explain that sentence of yours.

Seriously.

Tamas, you live in Majaristan.  How many religious people have you met in your life?

His Russian masters fucked it out of him.

[jimmy olsen]

A very interesting video blog discussion on Ardipithecus and a new genetic study on the ancestral population in North India. Spellus will love that part.

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/site/bloggingheads-october-2009.html

[Queequeg]

A very interesting video blog discussion on Ardipithecus and a new genetic study on the ancestral population in North India. Spellus will love that part.

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/site/bloggingheads-october-2009.html

Indians = Andamanese Islanders + Iranians.  NEWS!

How many times has Garbon been mistaken for a Desi?  Almost all my biracial white-black friends could tell you that.

[Queequeg]

Weirdly, they seem to be ignoring the possibility that successive waves of "Aryan" invasions of India, rather than one big Aryan invasion.  The Indo-Greeks, the Indo-Saka, the Tocharians, the Hepthalites....one big invasion wouldn't do it, but India received more than half a dozen invasions. 

EDIT: Their assumptions on the phenotype of the Proto-Indo-Europeans are questionable.  Most of the evidence I have seen on Indo-European grave sites indicate a very mixed people; IIRC Tarim Basin graves often have people of Mid-Eastern, Indian and Western European descent. 

[jimmy olsen]

Weirdly, they seem to be ignoring the possibility that successive waves of "Aryan" invasions of India, rather than one big Aryan invasion.  The Indo-Greeks, the Indo-Saka, the Tocharians, the Hepthalites....one big invasion wouldn't do it, but India received more than half a dozen invasions. 

EDIT: Their assumptions on the phenotype of the Proto-Indo-Europeans are questionable.  Most of the evidence I have seen on Indo-European grave sites indicate a very mixed people; IIRC Tarim Basin graves often have people of Mid-Eastern, Indian and Western European descent.

They don't ignore the possibility of successive waves of immigration, just that the Indo-Europeans and the Arayans came in different waves.

[CountDeMoney]

But Ardi has many traits that do not appear in modern-day African apes, leading to the conclusion that the apes evolved extensively since we shared that last common ancestor.

Scientists were still pressed to find an explanation for the fossilized remains of Air Jordans nearby.

[garbon]

How many times has Garbon been mistaken for a Desi?  Almost all my biracial white-black friends could tell you that.

Yes, many a time.