Here we go again…it is the weekend and after all the politics and that damn boring wedding….I need these days of Zen…..flush the mind of the fecal matter it has accumulated over the week….and to thank my readers that braved the odds and visited my site as opposed to the wedding……speaking of cavemen!  (how was that for a segway?)

First of all..I am NOT an anthropologist and my opinions are based on what may be a limited knowledge…….

For a couple years now my daughter and I have been having a running argument about our cave ancestors…..she was an anthropology major……as I understand it…..our original ancestor was located in Africa…you know what’s her name….Gilda……Bertha…..LUCY! (finally, that hurt trying to remember stuff like that)….anyway to continue….we as a species started in Africa and over the millennium we traveled up Africa around the Eastern end of the Mediterranean and across Europe until we made it to Southern France/Northern Spain…..where we then encountered Neanderthal….here is where we start a helluva argument……my take is if we were originally from Africa and did all that traveling…where did the Neanderthals come from?

Personally, I do not think that they were our ancestors and that they were a sub-species….maybe…..my daughter disagrees with me and we commence a yelling contest……where did the Neanderthals come from?  Apparently not from Africa….so with that where did the Neanderthals originate?

I will bet that you, my reader, is sitting there scratching your head wondering what I am going on about…..right?

A new find!

Fossils of the bones of the young male and adult female suggests a controversial new species, that walked upright and shared many physical traits with the earliest known human Homo species.

Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand and his team discovered the skeletal remains of the two specimens they determined to be a new species of human. The two partial skeletons may belong to a previously unclassified species of pre-human dating back almost 2 million years and may shed new light on human evolution.

The finding of the pre-human, or hominid, fossils — which scientists say are between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old — was published in the journal Science and where believed to possibly answer some key questions about where humans came from.

The skeletons had characteristics of previous species of Australopithecus, but also of Homo, leading the researchers to believe they may have found an evolutionary connection between the two, which evolved into a classic academic battle, with many believing there was no connection to Homo and that what they had discovered was really an ancestor of later Homo species.

they also discovered that the frontal lobe of this small brain contained organization more similar to that of humans, showing that contrary to what was previously thought, organization and brain size with human characteristics may not have been a simultaneous change. The pelvis of the A. sediba is what researchers believe show the strongest link toward the beginning of an evolutionary change to the Homo.

This just makes my argument with my daughter even more heated……I still say that the Neanderthals are NOT our direct ancestors…..so where did they come from?