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The mysterious <i>Homo naledi</i> — 14 Comments

  1. No, OW, the location of Jimmy Hoffa was already unearthed in 2007. During her embalming, they chiseled 17 layers of makeup off Tammy Faye Bakker, and there he was.

  2. Whenever John Hawks is in on the deal, I pay attention. He makes an interesting observation over at his own site, that elephants seem to have some understanding of death and some odd “burial” sorts of behaviors. He does not attribute this to any common ancestor, of course (that would go waaayyy back), but to long-lived, social creatures gradually acquiring some sense of what death means.

    The adventure of the story is fun, too. Archaeology always sounds so exciting when you read about it. The reality, of digging and brushing all day and finding a single nail, or magically, a button, is quite different.

  3. Whoops.

    I wrote:

    “Those of us interested in a non-technical version of the Expedition’s findings can check out next month’s National Geographic cover story.”

    The last line of Neo’s post is a link to the online version of that article. I didn’t catch that.

    Sorry about the repetition.

  4. What would one call the newly discovered fossils of western civilization? Characterized by a need to just give it all away, with no regard for its own offspring. Operating under the banner that “tolerance” and “multiculturalism” are the greatest of virtues…..

  5. I keep laughing at the phrase “surprisingly sophisticated behavior for its brain size”. I keep thinking of shrimp forks and evening tailcoats.

  6. The whole pursuit is nonsense…very simple…evolutionists are saying the world happened by accident. This includes microscopic life (thousands-millions of types with tremendous variety of behaviors, etc), mineral life: gold, calcium, lead etc. also all with individualistic structure and components, flora & fauna, which numbers in the thousands or millions (Coral, Insect eating plants, strangler plants, shade trees, fruit trees, etc.) Insect life: camouflaging insects, thousands or millions of varieties. Aquatic life with thousands of varieties: poisonous jelly fish, whales, seahorses, etc. Mammal & human life…with thousands of unique varieties. The meteorological system, the universe…all this happened by accident from some (Unknown and undefined) ‘Big Bang.’ What and why did it ‘bang?’ Did it always exist? No answers, or course.
    This is a: A. Arrogance: ‘There’ many Gods and one world’ thinking
    B. Idolatry C. Money maker or a combination. Where such pronouncements made in a mental hospital using different parameters the doctor would classify it as delusional thinking or some such.
    Folks, one might think that the builders of ‘The Tower of Babel’ were foolish to think one could hold up the heavens/sky to stop a flood. They were not foolish or stupid…just the opposite! However they were arrogant, which ‘blinds’ people. Perhaps they also coveted money and fame.
    bhoffinger@aol.com

  7. For 40 years the scientific establishment fooled the public into believing in ‘Piltdown Man.’ When it was announced only a few scientist were skeptical & the rest jubilant!
    Much money was made, but who will return it to the gullible/desirous to believe, public?

  8. I met a young man here in Crown Heights, Brooklyn NY who believes anthropologists & archaeologists re: ‘missing link’ findings, said: “They’re poor and work hard, therefore they’re honest.”
    How many other Americans think like this?
    If these ‘scientists’ (question, no?) were rich were they then to be trusted?
    What do you think?
    Thanks

  9. Boruch Hoffinger:

    It may all be a happenstance, but that determination will never be made in the scientific domain. However, in the post-normal scientific faith, the frame-based philosophy of science has been deprecated. Think outside the frame.

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