Aiello 'falou e disse': nós apenas sabemos o básico da história evolutiva humana

sábado, janeiro 16, 2010



Source: Nature


"Most of the recent effort in hominin palaeontology has been focused on Africa and Europe. But the announcement in 2004 of the small hominin Homo floresiensis in Indonesia was a warning that we are naive to assume we know more than the basic outline of human evolutionary history. If H. floresiensis is indeed a surviving remnant of early Homo that left Africa around 2 million years ago, we have to reject the long-standing idea that Homo erectus was the first African emigrant. We also must reject many hypotheses concerning the prerequisites for this emigration, such as a relatively large brain size, large body size and human-like limb proportions. Importantly, we must confront our relative ignorance about human evolution outside Europe and Africa." - “Hominin paleontology”
Leslie C. Aiello, President, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

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Nota deste blogger: E ainda dizem que o fato, Fato, FATO da evolução humana já está robustamente corroborado. Nada mais falso! No contexto de justificação teórica, as evidências, segundo Henry Gee, cabem numa caixa de papelão!!!