The Archaeopteryges
"I've spent the last few days taking the apocalypse less seriously than I've been, but that should only suggest that I haven't allowed it to continue to cripple my ability to have any sort of fun. The keyword to every news article I look at is obviously 'methane', and it's still popping up everywhere, and I guess it won't be until after they've secured the two relief wells in August that I might quit sweating it."
That there is saved from the last draft in kashmir_bitches, c. July 2010.
Homo sapien, as defined by the internet's Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, is the__
Species to which all modern human beings belong. The oldest known fossil remains date to c. 120,000 years ago--or much earlier (c. 400,000 years ago) if evidence of certain archaic varieties is included. Homo sapiens is distinguished from earlier hominin species by characteristics and habits such as bipedal stance and gait, brain capacity averaging about 1,350 cc, high forehead, small teeth and jaw, defined chin, construction and use of tools, and ability to use symbols. Most scholars believe that modern humans developed in Africa c. 150,000 years ago and spread to the Middle East c. 100,000 years ago and to other parts of Eurasia c. 40,000-50,000 years ago (this is known as the "single-origin" model). Others contend that modern humans developed from various regional populations of archaic H. sapiens or even other species of Homo in Eurasia beginning c. 250,000 years ago (the "multiregional" model). In the first model the genetic differences that exist between the peoples of the world would not be very old; in the second model they would be significantly older. In any case, by c. 11,000 BC modern H. sapiens had peopled virtually the entire globe. See also Cro-Magnon; culture; human evolution; Neanderthal.
That there is saved from the last draft in kashmir_bitches, c. July 2010.
Homo sapien, as defined by the internet's Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, is the__
Species to which all modern human beings belong. The oldest known fossil remains date to c. 120,000 years ago--or much earlier (c. 400,000 years ago) if evidence of certain archaic varieties is included. Homo sapiens is distinguished from earlier hominin species by characteristics and habits such as bipedal stance and gait, brain capacity averaging about 1,350 cc, high forehead, small teeth and jaw, defined chin, construction and use of tools, and ability to use symbols. Most scholars believe that modern humans developed in Africa c. 150,000 years ago and spread to the Middle East c. 100,000 years ago and to other parts of Eurasia c. 40,000-50,000 years ago (this is known as the "single-origin" model). Others contend that modern humans developed from various regional populations of archaic H. sapiens or even other species of Homo in Eurasia beginning c. 250,000 years ago (the "multiregional" model). In the first model the genetic differences that exist between the peoples of the world would not be very old; in the second model they would be significantly older. In any case, by c. 11,000 BC modern H. sapiens had peopled virtually the entire globe. See also Cro-Magnon; culture; human evolution; Neanderthal.