Dec 19

Fossilized Femur Suggests Ancient and Modern Humans Overlapped

I want to thank David S. for sending this to me.

red-deer-cave-manAfter reevaluating a thigh bone found in 1989, researchers suggest ancient “Red Deer Cave people” could have overlapped with modern humans. (Photo : Peter Schouten)

A fossil thigh bone creates a plot twist in the story of human evolution. This partial femur — found among remains of China’s mysterious “Red Deer Cave people” — belongs to an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct, researchers say. This suggests the ancient species actually survived at least until the last Ice Age 14,000 years ago and overlapped with modern humans.

The fossil’s true identity was discovered by researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (YICRA, China). The femur was originally excavated from Yunnan Province’s Maludong (Red Deer Cave) in 1989, but it remained unstudied in a museum in southeastern Yunnan, according to a news release.

While the fossils have not yet been assigned to a particular species, researchers say the thigh bone exhibits features that strongly resemble those of Homo habilis and early Homo erectus, which lived more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa. It follows then that early hominins may not have immediately disappeared in China after modern humans emerged.

“The new find hints at the possibility a pre-modern species may have overlapped in time with modern humans on mainland East Asia, but the case needs to be built up slowly with more bone discoveries,” Associate Professor Darren Curnoe, study leader from UNSW, explained in the university’s release.

After analyzing the thigh bone, researchers believe the Red Deer Cave people had a gait that was different than ours, and that they were relatively small compared to pre-modern and Ice Age human standards.

“The unique environment and climate of southwest China resulting from the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau may have provided a refuge for human diversity, perhaps with pre-modern groups surviving very late,” Professor Professor Ji Xueping, co-author of the study from YICRA, added.

Their study was recently published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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17 Responses to “Fossilized Femur Suggests Ancient and Modern Humans Overlapped”

  1. David D

    Sorry Wes, but every time someone posts’ the “dead Horse” of evolutionism, human into god religion, I just can’t help but stop, and give that rotting old carcass a swift kick in the @ss! It doesn’t sound like you’ve ever examined the subject in depth, or, maybe I’m wrong.
    Every so-called, long ago-and far away (fairy tale spoiler alert) example of something extinct, that’s been dug up, is just something that died a while back, got covered in tons of mud (flood) absorbed the surrounding minerals and turned hard (rock) or petrified. No one has ever seen that happen, but God does record the events for us. Every so-called monkey-into-man-missing link, so-called, has been proven false a hundred years ago, and if you knew anything about this topic, the religion of evolutionism, and the rather fantastic harm it has brought about on mankind, you would in an instant, pull the handle and flush-maybe twice, and not destroy the creditability you’ve worked so hard to establish. If you want to think the way the shrinking number of monkey into man guys want you think, that’s of course entirely up to you and you’re free to do that. But, and please don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re a lot smarter than that. If so- called scientists wish to believe that they came from a rock, millions of years ago (yes, that is what they really think), they are also free to do so. But, if it weren’t for the tax payers, being robbed of their hard earned dollars, their religion would not exist. Have them start their own-self funded atheist club, advertise, and see who shows up. Then, they could pass their own plate and start counting the pennies and iou’s. In short, they would go rapidly into bankruptcy! Like I said Wes, I’m a Biblicist first, and everything else has to stand up to Biblical scrutiny; It’s called discernment. I do appreciate the show you work hard at each and every week, but it is becoming clear that either you or someone else, has an agenda to bring to the forefront, and if that is or was a hidden agenda of evolutionism, then I’m going to have to drop my meager subscription; meager in what I pay out for a great program. I do realize, I won’t make many friends with my stance, but look what the religious crowd did to Jesus; can I really expect to be treated better than He was? I think not. Yea, I know, I’m extremely narrow minded; you have nooo idea! Some of that has to do with the road I’m on; very narrow indeed. Well, as usually is the case, I’ve gotten long winded again! Didn’t have a Snickers, just a good dinner- it’s a horse-power thing! I’ll wait for your reply. If I don’t hear back in a few days, I’ll just write it up to another one of life’s experiences and not bother you, or any of the other readers anymore. Sorry man, but I can’t with any measure of grey-matter activity, send dollars to the promoting of the most dangerous of religious views. Take care, and be careful out there. Merry Christmas.

  2. David D

    Oh, and P.S. If I was a black man I’d be extremely pissed! It really does fall along the lines of Hitler’s’ list. Yea, the slimy little demonic despot, really did have a list he was working from. Don’t you remember the comments from the Berlin Olympics’-1936, when Jessie Owens, the great American BLACK athlete beat the pants of the Hitleryougnen (SP) ? He said, after storming out of his little throne area, “It is not fair to make my fine athletes’, compete with such an animal”! Wow! Hitler really did believe in evolutionism. Racism, fascism, Marxism, communism, fanaticism, all those wonderful “fruits” of the worlds most dangerous religion! It’s a lie from the pit-one that the Devil started. He doesn’t believe it, he only needs to get man to believe it-the rest is history. Oh, one more thing, blacks’ and Africans, were second to the bottom of der fuherers (spell check won’t work) list; at the very bottom of the list, the Jews, which received the dubious distinction of being “pure-ape”. Blacks and Africans, mostly pure ape! Wow!! Everyone who reads this, and still celebrates Christmas, needs to thank God for sending His Son, born of a woman, born under Law; David’s greater Son-a Jew!

  3. Steven J

    Excellent article, Wes. Please don’t hesitate to show more from a more scientific viewpoint.

    David D, thank you for your contribution. I think we all need to exercise our 1st amendment rights from time to time, and that exercise includes listening and respecting the views of others that we may whole heartedly and passionately disagree with. It also includes freedom of religious belief, which again is an exercise in toleration of others that one may entirely disagree with.

    That said, I am a Christian, but I also firmly believe that science has definitively proven a general principle that allows change and diversification of time of any and all species.

    I look forward to continue funding your endeavors with my membership.

  4. James M

    SORRY DAVE, EVOLUTION ISM IS NOT A PSEUDO RELIGION. IT IS A FACT AND A PRACTICE THAT ENJOYS A HIGH MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION OF EARTH. SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES IS THE MAIN COMPONENT OF EVOLUTION AND WHICH THERE CAN BE NO DISPUTING THIS. I THINK IT IS RIDICULOUS THAT YOU EVEN THINK THAT WES HAS A HIDDEN AGENDA. IF ANYTHING WES HAS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO GIVE ALL SIDES TO A STORY. AS FOR ME I WOULD PAY A EXTRA 7 DOLLARS JUST TO GET KNUCKLE DRAGGING CLOSED MINDED REPUBLICAN CREATIONIST BACK TO WHERE THEY SHOULD BE……WATCHING FOX NEWS!!!!

  5. tim c

    the fact is everything was created of its own kind exactly what God said to be like. the fact is 2000 years ago Paul writes in Romans that there be people like this scoffing God’s Wordf and the creation of God.fat Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies if one man were only to fulfill 8 like being born in Bethlehem which we celebrate Christmas, others that we know about a true history. The odds of that would be 10th to the 17th power.This is true fact. Evolution is a lie,scientist lie people lie God is not a man that he can lie

  6. Charlotte H

    Yes, thanks for the information Wes. I enjoy reading all the research information you show us and appreciate all the hard work it takes to bring it to us. I don’t believe you have a secret agenda. So keep it up and you can count on me to renew my membership and enjoy your shows. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful and prosperous New Year????????. Thanks again.

    Charlotte H.

  7. Shaun W

    Evolution Vs Creation, great point for debate. When will God show himself to thigh, do I have to surround myself by believers to be influenced and than he will show himself?

    I like everyone fear dying and dread the thought of being away from family and loved ones. But I will not commit my life to believing a book that has little to no evidence of it’s purpose. What a waste of my life to worship a being that there is no evidence of, even Sasquatch has video, photos, dna, fossils, audio etc to show some to strong evidence of it’s existence.

    How disrespectful David D to call Wes out because the story he posted challenges your beliefs. He has not posted this story to offend you, he has done it for all his subscribers to read and enjoy. You have chosen to be offended by this just like I have chosen to be offended by your suggestions of Wes having a hidden agenda. This story has scientific evidence, please don’t force your beliefs that have no substance other than a book and a huge following of believers.

    I respect your beliefs but will challenge them when your mind is so closed to the thought of evolution. We will all die eventually and then we get to see whether there really is a god, if real he may reject me from heaven for suggesting he not being real and questioning the bible. I would like God to be real but there is Zero proof of his existence and plan to live my life doing what I see right by enjoying it without worshipping the bible.

    Yours Truly,
    Heavens Reject

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