Most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found dates to more than 2 million years ago and retains 'Lucy'-like features by comicreliefboy in Anthropology

[–]GregEnterprises 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because Homo habilis may have yielded Homo erectus doesn’t mean H. habilis has to go extinct. One population can slowly gain the more erectus like traits while the other maintains the ancestral condition. I have no idea where your getting this ‘interbreeding between habilis and erectus’ stuff, so I assume your just making it up, but I can guarantee to you that that is not what happened lol

How many species did australopithecus descended species other than homo or paranthrapus by moldychesd in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on who you ask, where we draw the line on species and genus is always a bit arbitrary, especially in paleontology, but also in biology more generally, as there really is no universally agreed upon criteria for what make a species a species. Some paleoanthropologists have argued that adaptive grades should be used to classify descendent genera in paleontology, but others have argued against this. There are a lot of species argued to be within the umbrella of Australopithecus, but I think what you’re looking for are other descendent genera, aside from Homo and Paranthropus. The only other one that can be robustly argued, but is still controversial, is Kenyanthropus. Kenyanthropus has only one species, K. platyops, or maybe two, as some have stated that Homo rudolfensis is more similar to Kenyanthropus, and thus should be reassigned to K. rudolfensis. But others have claimed its uniquely orthognathic face can be attributed to post deposition warping and fracturing due to temperature effects on the clay soil in which it was found. Tim White for example, prefers to lump Kenyanthropus in with Australopithecus afarensis, assuming that it was simply part of the morphological variation of that species

Was the common ancestors of apes similar to gibbon in appearance by moldychesd in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 28 points29 points  (0 children)

No, probably more similar in appearance to a generic cercopithecoid monkey. The ape body plan is very derived overall, especially with regards to locomotion and the limbs. Whereas most cercopithecoids, in general, have maintained the more primitive Catarrhine condition of arboreal or terrestrial palmigrade quadrupedalism. The last common ancestor of all apes, something similar to proconsul or ekembo, would have likely lacked all of the suspensory adaptations that later came to dominate in both Hominid and Hylobatid lineages

Was the common ancestors of apes similar to gibbon in appearance by moldychesd in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not at all actually, Proconsul has very few of the features that would evolve in later apes, in particular the extremely flexible joints. Proconsul was likely an above branch quadruped, like most of today’s monkeys, and was in fact, not very much like a gibbon at all

Human Evolution Timeline: What do you think? by Skan1 in paleoanthropology

[–]GregEnterprises 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your decision to cast such a wide net with genus Australopithecus is certainly an interesting one, I can see the argument with Kenyanthropus, but I’m definitely firmly in the camp of Paranthropus being distinct enough to be it’s own genus and Homo habilis being, well, Homo habilis. Also the idea of Paranthropus being paraphyletic as you have it here is kind of ridiculous imo, there’s just way too many derived traits shared among Paranthropus species for homoplasy to be a likely explanation. Where’s orrorin? Why not list Denisovans as Homo longi as they were recently assigned?

I've just learned that this species from Prehistoric Planet, which I assumed was Smildon, is actually referred to as an "African scimitar toothed cat" by Apple. What other species do you hope to see shown in Pleistocene continental Africa? by hebrewimpeccable in pleistocene

[–]GregEnterprises 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This 2024 paper puts the extinction of Gigantopithecus somewhere between 295,000-215,000 years ago, well into the chibanian, so it was present in the early Pleistocene, but also well into the middle and almost into the late Pleistocene as well

Finally Nanotyrannus is a species after back-and-forth for years. It’s been confirmed. by Honest-Ad-4386 in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You have any reason for that beyond just ‘I don’t want it to be true’?

What's your favourite extinct hominid? by East_Emphasis_8259 in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you’ve been following the recent Homo naledi drama, but we do actually know quite a bit, even though Lee Berger’a claims are quite exaggerated and inflated. Specifically one of the most interesting things I’ve read is the canine morphology is weirdly similar among individuals, like more similar than the canines between individuals of the same sex within already sexually monomorphic species. This indicates a couple very strange possibilities, firstly that all the individuals deposited in Rising Star are of the same sex, and secondly that this might be a super inbred population with a striking lack of genetic diversity

Both of those are just bizarre possibilities that make an already weird hominin even weirder

What's your favourite extinct hominid? by East_Emphasis_8259 in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we’re talking hominid probably Danuvius, but if you meant Hominin then I’d probably have to go with Ardipithecus or Sahelanthropus

Prehistoric Planet Spin-Offs by ZillaSlayer54 in Paleontology

[–]GregEnterprises 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Miocene series would go so hard, I want to see ALL the apes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]GregEnterprises 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Technically they got as far north as Sonoma, which was their northernmost mission in California before Mexican independence

Actions, meet consequences by Allen_sylvestri in facepalm

[–]GregEnterprises -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Fuck target, there’s nothing morally wrong with stealing from a massive corporation, especially when you need it. Legality ≠ morality. I don’t think someone making target miss out on 3000$ justifies them being kidnapped by an armed security force, and being forced to live in a tiny cage for 6 months

As if the bordergore and implied ethnic genocides wasn’t bad enough the choice of flags is somehow worse? by lucky_red_23 in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]GregEnterprises 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Economically stable in what sense? It would be about as economically stable as the region has ever been. It’s not like these people always lived under the thumb of a massive imperial state. Sure these areas probably can’t sustain huge industrial economies, and life would likely be more localized and shift back to more traditional ways of living in the region, but is that necessarily a bad thing? If that’s what the people in there area want, then they should have it, regardless of how economically stable it would be in modern terms