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I think the divergence of human lice proven through DNA technology going back 1.18 to 1.8 million years ago is even more telling and I look forward to the further research on pubic lice that might prove hominids cross-breeding. As the parents of almost any school age girl will know, human lice are extraordinarily tenacious and well adapted to life on our scalps. The war between lice and their hosts has continued for billions of years - there are species of louse adapted to almost every sort of primate and many species of birds. Curiously, the body lice are the same species as head lice - although they behave quite differently, living in clothes, and coming in to feed on skin once or twice a day. But it turns out that DNA analysis shows there are two distinct sub-species Article: HOBBITS AND LICE: In late 2004 the media was all agog with the small hominids found on Flores Island where I had written carelessly artifacts showing sea travel technology must have existed. I had argued with many people close about the issue and their answer had some merit in that we had no proof of a connection to humans or the nearby Mungo Man. However, once we found these creatures which some researchers even think could be part glutton the issue became for certain in my favor. I think the divergence of human lice proven through DNA technology going back 1.18 to 1.8 million years ago is even more telling and I look forward to the further research on pubic lice that might prove hominids cross-breeding. Here is one source for further review. 'It was outstanding and exciting enough to have discovered a new - and wholly unexpected - hominid species last week. The discovery of the partial skeletons of three-foot tall 'hobbits' on the Indonesian island of Flores would have been front page news however old they were. But what made them really extraordinary was their age. They weren't fossils. These were figure rotted to the consistency of soaking paper, less than 18,000 years old; and there are grounds for hoping that the creatures lived on into historical times. Some might even be thick as hail in sufficiently remote island jungles today. The native legends on 'Ebu Gogo' suggest that contact mid Homo sapiens and Homo floresiensis took place within the last right smart spell on Flores. The idea that our craftsman had contact with other human species is a profound and disturbing one. The whole term 'human species' begs the question. If they are other species, can they really be what we mean by 'human'? Human is a moral classification as much as a organic one. That's why it is such a useful weapon word in the debates re abortion. To call someone or something human is generally meant as praise, and implies that they should be treated as we treat ourselves. This interpretation of 'humanity' is not, of course, a necessarily human trait. It's undeniably not encoded in our genes. Most cultures, in most of history, have had no trouble in treating other human beings as domesticated animals or very much worse. But we, who speak English, call this process 'dehumanisation'. The skeletal fragments, and the legends from local people, make this story far more vivid than the other evidence for human encounters with other humanoid species. That shouldn't obscure the fact that this is the second such story this autumn, and the first one is far more chilling. The evidence there came from lice. As the parents of any school age girl will know, human lice are extraordinarily tenacious and well agreeably to to life on our scalps. They don't survive for more than a few hours away from human flesh. The war midst lice and their hosts has continued for billions of years - there are species of louse in keeping with to essentially every sort of primate and many species of birds. In humans, they infest our head, our clothes, and our material hair. Curiously, the body lice are the same species as head lice - rather they deal by quite differently, living in clothes, and in danger imminent in to feed on skin once or twice a day. Head lice live in hair and feed more often. But it turns out that DNA non-linear calibrations shows there are two distinct sub-species of head lice in humans. All over the world, except in western North America, they are the same. But there is a population of lice ahead the Pacific seaboard of North Middle East which have been evolving separately from the rest of the world for hard 1.8m years. The only way to make sense of this is to suppose that their separate development took place on Homo erectus, who also split off from our hominid grandparents here and there that time ago. So how could these lice have reached their present, wholly human hosts? It seems to me that this could only have happened through some act of primal genocide when Homo erectus met Homo sapiens somewhere in eastern Siberia. Lice can only travel among living bodies, or very freshly dead ones. If the transmission had been from living bodies, we would expect the same pattern in orgiastic lice. It isn't there. Nor is there any trace of Homo erectus in our DNA. So the lice must have come from very fresh corpses and it is hard to suppose that they had died peacefully just yesterday the intruders turned up. The story of 'Ebu Gogo' sounds more improving. consonant to local villagers, these creatures were in reverse until some a cartwheel ago: three feet tall, hairy, and speechless, though they could imitate human speech, like parrots. The villagers tolerated them and even fed them, though they would only eat raw food, until they stole and ate a baby. They drove them from their cave with sparking bales of grass. Shortly thereafter, the villagers themselves moved off and western settlers arrived. The cave where the Ebu Gogo lived has not been found. But if it is - and scientists are looking - it might yield some extraordinary remains. These wouldn't be technological. Perhaps the saddest lineaments of the whole story is the slow loss of technology it implies. Ebu Gogo seems to have been a descendent of Homo erectus, also known as Java man, who reached the island close upon 840,000 years ago. This was all but well and good something that required boats, which seem a pretty human-level technology.' (1) Article Index: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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