Bringing early ancestors back to life

How best to reconstruct our earliest ancestors? An anthropology professor at Zurich University, Christoph Zollikofer, is providing groundbreaking insights into rare hominid fossils. (swissinfo, Michele Andina)

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[TheFlyingHoodlum]

You don't need to go through all that trouble. Simply go to any Nascar tailgating party and you'll find a number of Neanderthals grunting and cooking meat over an open fire.

[ArtypNk]

I wonder If humans survive 100.000 more years being affected by gases, radiation, and other hazards, will we adopt by obtaining some kind of filter? Or maybe thicker skin. I wonder...

[kusalaviro]

@XazorozaX You mean, 'a common ancestor'

[PRlAPEIA]

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[Hammersley1967]

FUCKEN KILL 'EM ALL!!!

[alienincognito]

to interject with an irrelevant comment...but there was a movie called "NIghtbreed" which was the story of the surviving human species that have created a hidden society to protect them from mans "hunters"....the movie wasn't the greatest but the idea that man destroyed other species in fear and hatred...survival of the fittest!!

[XazorozaX]

this vid isnt right, as said again we didn't come from ape's.... we had an same ancestor

[AuroraOmega]

@ divick630: I agree wit you. Environment is what makes us adapt to survive. After all we do get tan when exposed to Sun to protect us from it. For us it happens seasonly but if we were exposed to great amount of sunlight all year round we would not loose color at all. If we also take into calculation that with enough time has passed adaptation becomes trait... And to support this even more black people have white palms and soles - parts non exposed to sunlight(!)

[Infynitra]

albinism is a genetic disorder where the effected animal is lacking the ability to produce melanin... whites, blacks, chinese, cats, alligators.... any animal can be albino.

[d3tach3d]

The hot sun reflecting back onto their skin would indeed make them dark.

[divick630]

Since you appear to be unable to make proper logical conclusions, I'm going to go ahead and drop this.

[lamrof]

And why are Eskimos so small. Come on be consistent. You are trying to plug holes in your theory and so its a useless theory. Whites are albinos who moved to northern Europe to escape strong sunlight and persecution. See how Albinos are treated in India and Africa.