Homosapiensim

[AV1611VET]

If we came from Homo [something], why isn't Homo [something] still around?

 

[JustMeSee]

They died.

 

[JustMeSee]

UN Environment Programme: 200 Species Extinct Every Day, Unlike Anything Since Dinosaurs Disappeared 65 Million Years Ago

 

[Guy1]

If we came from Homo [something], why isn't Homo [something] still around?

You mind explaining this a little better? I don't understand the question.

 

[AV1611VET]

You mind explaining this a little better? I don't understand the question.

It's simple ...

If we came from Homo ergaster -- (or whatever it was our direct parents were) -- where are they?

If we can trace the domestic dog's lineage back to the coyote, which is still around, then were are our 'coyotes' at?

(It's interesting you need clarification. Evidently evolution isn't as cut-and-dried as some want us to think.)

 

[JustMeSee]

Maybe, homo sapien sapiens killed them off. Maybe, disease or environment pressures.

Hopefully, someone in the know will have a well researched answer.

 

[Guy1]

It's simple ...

If we came from Homo ergaster -- (or whatever it was our direct parents were) -- where are they?

If we can trace the domestic dog's lineage back to the coyote, which is still around, then were are our 'coyotes' at?

(It's interesting you need clarification. Evidently evolution isn't as cut-and-dried as some want us to think.)

There's this thing called "extinction". It happens when a certain population is incapable of adapting to it's environment . It's what happened to ergaster.

 

[AV1611VET]

Maybe, homo sapien sapiens killed them off. Maybe, disease or environment pressures.

Hopefully, someone in the know will have a well researched answer.

I have a feeling this information isn't taught in higher aceldama.

It looks like they don't even have any theories.

I would have thought this question would have been answered by now.

 

[JustMeSee]

This thread isn't even an hour old.

Why are there no dodos?

What happened to the unicorns?

 

[AV1611VET]

There's this thing called "extinction". It happens when a certain population is incapable of adapting to it's environment . It's what happened to ergaster.

Fine ... ergaster extook ... but are there any species between ergaster and sapiens-sapiens?

(Why am I having to explain myself?)

 

[Notedstrangeperson]

Funny, usually Creationists say "Well if humans evolved from monkeys then why are monkeys still around?"

I'm going to take a guess and say you'll get two completely different answers from other creations:

a) They all died in the flood
b) They aren't different species, they're just different kinds of people. That guy I saw in the store the other looked like a Neanderthal.

 

[AV1611VET]

This thread isn't even an hour old.

Why are there no dodos?

What happened to the unicorns?

I'm not buying that.

I find it ... too coincidental that our direct parents died off, but [apparently] died giving birth to us.

You would think that there would at least be an overlap.

 

[AV1611VET]

Funny, usually Creationists say "Well if humans evolved from monkeys then why are monkeys still around?"

I'm going to take a guess and say you'll get two completely different answers from other creations:

a) They all died in the flood
b) They aren't different species, they're just different kinds of people. That guy I saw in the store the other looked like a Neanderthal.

To be honest, I don't think anyone knows -- since it's all a fairy tale in the first place.

 

[Guy1]

Fine ... ergaster extook ... but are there any species between ergaster and sapiens-sapiens?

(Why am I having to explain myself?)

Several. Off the top of my head I can name (in no particular order) Homo erectus, homo habilis, homo heidelbergensis, and neanderthal

(Because you don't ask the right questions)

My answer is the same as before. Extinctions. Neanderthal was most likely either hunted off the face of the earth (Homo sapiens is an especially violent species) or inter-bred with humans (We're also omnisexual as a whole)

 

[AV1611VET]

Neanderthal was most likely either hunted off the face of the earth (Homo sapiens is an especially violent species) or inter-bred with humans (We're also omnisexual as a whole)

What do you mean 'most likely?' don't you know?

And why would we hunt our parents off the face of the earth?

 

[Guy1]

What do you mean 'most likely?' don't you know?

No. Then again I'm a simple 16 year old, 1st year undergraduate majoring in Molecular and Celular Biology. Though I doubt many scientists would answer with absolute certainty (Such is the scientific process)

And why would we hunt our parents off the face of the earth?

Because we're an extremely violent and xenophobic species. These "parents of ours *By this point already a separate species* Only somewhat resembled us, they were not part of our tribes (Most of the time), and they took food we thought of as "Ours". This, coupled with an interest in violence and killing unparalleled throughout most of the animal kingdom, it was only a matter of time.

 

[Mr Strawberry]

What do you mean 'most likely?' don't you know?

And why would we hunt our parents off the face of the earth?

Neanderthals weren't our parents, they were cousins.

 

[Guy1]

Neanderthals weren't our parents, they were cousins.

Really now? I was unaware. My apologies to mister AV for the mistake.

 

[AV1611VET]

I'll be honest with you, Guy, I find it suspect you all-of-a-sudden went from this ...

You mind explaining this a little better? I don't understand the question.

... to this:

Because we're an extremely violent and xenophobic species. These "parents of ours *By this point already a separate species* Only somewhat resembled us, they were not part of our tribes (Most of the time), and they took food we thought of as "Ours". This, coupled with an interest in violence and killing unparalleled throughout most of the animal kingdom, it was only a matter of time.

You went from needing clarification, to suddenly knowing how our parents lived -- right down to these details.

And I'm not buying it.

ETA: And who are 'we' in that first sentence? Shouldn't you have said, 'they?'

 

[AV1611VET]

Neanderthals weren't our parents, they were cousins.

LOL -- mamma mia --

Would one of you make up your mind?