The Neanderthal Problem

[Dages]

Reminder that fossil are static item of an individual.

"Evolution" is a transition process happening over populations.  
Finding a bone that matches a "prediction" is not an experiment; it is post-hoc rationalization and confirmation bias.

So they can show some fossil, that won't demonstrate their evolution theory.

[Percy]

47 minutes ago, Dages said:

Reminder that fossil are static item of an individual.

"Evolution" is a transition process happening over populations.  
Finding a bone that matches a "prediction" is not an experiment; it is post-hoc rationalization and confirmation bias.

So they can show some fossil, that won't demonstrate their evolution theory.

I call it EVOMAGINATION. haha.

[Shawnster]

The Neanderthal from Altamura was human.  Glad they agree 

 

[Percy]

40 minutes ago, Shawnster said:

The Neanderthal from Altamura was human.  Glad they agree 

 

I wonder how much thought they gave it? 

[Witness1970]

A person gets 50% of their DNA from each parent.  Over generations the DNA becomes more and more diluted.  If you could check the DNA of one of your actual ancestors from 1,000 years ago (about 30 generations) you will probably find little to NO evidence that that person was your ancestor.

 

I am not sure how to apply this to the topic, but it just came to mind while reading the other posts.

 

 

[LeolaRootStew]

I wonder how accurate the renditions will be proven to be. If people are going to be resurrected looking like that, they aren't going to be cough cough highly attractive from our perspective; of course, I know these renditions are often wildly wrong, so hopefully…

 

We'll probably laugh at this with them some day. 

Edited 2 hours ago by LeolaRootStew