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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / November 2004Pierolapithecus --> Oreopithecus --> Orrorin --> humanity; Cradle of humanity was not Africa but Europe; Stonethrowing theory
My, my, my, the science of Anthropology is going through the most exciting moments of its entire history. Before the end of the 21st century, this science should be about 75% completed and solved with the remaining 25% to fill in details. The Stonethrowing Theory is the bulk of the understanding of anthropology. Humanity is but a stonethrowing ape. I heard the news on the BBC last night and felt compelled to copy in full the below text from Reuters because I am going to debate line for line some of the announcements. --- quoting from Reuters on the Internet --- Fossil Ape May Be Ancestor of All Apes - Report Thu Nov 18, 3:08 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ape that lived 13 million years ago in what is now Spain may have been the last common ancestor of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans, researchers said on Thursday. The fossil provides a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons, the researchers said. The creature, named Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, had a stiff lower spine and flexible wrists that would have made it a tree-climbing specialist, the researchers write in this week's issue of the journal Science. "This probably is very close to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans," said Salvador Moya-Sola of the Miguel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology in Barcelona, Spain, who led the study. It would have looked something like a modern chimpanzee and probably ate fruit, said his colleague Meike Kohler. "It may have looked a little bit in the face comparable to that of a chimp but with some differences," she said in a telephone briefing. "I would call it a missing link, because it really fills a gap," she added. About 25 million years ago, old world monkeys, which now live in Africa and Asia, split off from the line that eventually led to apes. The great apes -- orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans -- are believed to have branched off from the lesser apes such as gibbons and siamangs about 11 million to 16 million years ago. Humans branched off from chimpanzees an estimated 7 million years ago. The researchers had just begun digging at the site near Barcelona when a bulldozer turned up the first bits of the fossilized skeleton. They immediately knew they had something unique. The animal's rib cage, spine and wrist all looked like a great ape's, specialized for climbing. Monkeys, in contrast, while excellent climbers, have more general movement abilities and are not so specialized. But the new find has small hands, unlike modern great apes. "This newly discovered fossil, a new ape species from Spain called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative, may have been the last common ancestor of all living great apes, or close to that ancestor," said Brooks Hanson, deputy editor for physical sciences at Science magazine. "Although this group includes humans, it's important to remember that we've had millions of years of evolution since then, she added." --- end quoting Reuters --- The biggest and nicest surprize from the above is that Oreopithecus was southern Italy and Oreopithecus would eventually become humanity via Orrorin on to homo species. It all is connected by Stonethrowing and that Oreopithecus was the first human ancestor to start a new behaviour on this planet Earth. Some 8 to 10 million years ago a pre- Oreopithecus began throwing rocks and stones which would become a new species of Oreopithecus that Threw rocks and stones and was changing its bone anatomy to bipedalism in order to make Throwing even better. This Throwing species that was becoming more biped would give rise to Orrorin which was fully Throwing plus biped. First Humanity was borne in Southern Europe of Oreopithecus and then Orrorin would migrate into Africa. Finally, the most skilled throwing humanlike species of pre-CroMagnon would give rise to CroMagnon living in Africa and would move out of Africa extincting all humanlike species less skilled in Throwing, e.g. Neanderthal versus CroMagnon. So the new item of above is further evidence or proof that the Cradle of Humanity was not Africa but Southern Europe. Why is it that Africa never yielded such ancient ape fossils such as this? It is because these ancient apelike fossils do not exist in Africa but exist in Southern Europe. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies (most cut) > --- quoting from Reuters on the Internet --- > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > may have been the last common ancestor of > all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, Some years back I wrote that the Cradle of Humanity was Southern Europe and the only evidence I had for the claim was that Oreopithecus is from Italy. But now I have more evidence of the claim with this recent find in Spain. Years back I marshalled the idea that species change occurs more rapidly at the borders of a species territory. The idea is that Africa was the center of primate habitat and had reached as far north as southern-Europe. So Southern Europe was the extreme northern border of primate territory. My argument was that at the extreme borders or fringes of a species habitat is the place most likely to give rise to the creation of a new species of primates. So the idea is that pre-apes lived mostly in Africa but had southern europe as its northern most boundary. And that a new species or several new species were created at this boundary of habitat. And the first Throwing primates of Oreopithecus also lived at these extreme edges of primate habitat where the center of primates was central Africa. It appears that enough of a skeleton of Pierolapithecus was found to compare to Oreopithecus and we can thus begin to measure the changes needed in bone morphology to turn a Pierolapithecus into that of a Oreopithecus. The bone changes should be mostly of bones used in Throwing such as rotator-cuff and opposable thumb and arms. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies > My, my, my, the science of Anthropology is going through the most > exciting moments of its entire history. I agree, and I think the pierolapithecus will ultimately be a more important find than the floresiensis, as it narrows down where we differentiated from the ancestors of the great apes, the proverbial "missing link(s)". The 'hobbits' will be more intriguing to the general public, though, and more misunderstood. (snip what I wrote) > I agree, and I think the pierolapithecus will ultimately be a more > important find than the floresiensis, as it narrows down where we > differentiated from the ancestors of the great apes, the proverbial > "missing link(s)". The 'hobbits' will be more intriguing to the general > public, though, and more misunderstood. Here is one prediction of the Stonethrowing theory as related to Pierolapithecus and Oreopithecus. We know that humans throw both overarm and underarm and that humans are bipeds. We know that chimps are quadraped and throw only underarm. Thus, and therefore, if the Stonethrowing theory is correct and I am fully confident that it is correct than some skeletal fossil exists somewhere between Pierolapithecus and Oreopithecus that is a species that threw underarm yet was still quadraped. From what I know of Oreopithecus and it maybe incorrect, is that Oreopithecus was biped. That means from the standpoint of the Stonethrowing theory that Oreopithecus was a full thrower both underarm and overarm. So that means that there existed a pre-Oreopithecus species whose skeleton morphology of the arms and legs and Rotator Cuff and fingers are closely matching that of modern day chimpanzee morphology with respect to the bones of throwing underarm and still quadrapedal. And I can even make an educated guess as to where this species will be found since Pierolapithecus was found in Spain and Oreopithecus found in southern Italy that if we draw a line between the dig site in Spain and the dig site in southern Italy that somewhere along that line is a dig site that will find this "pithecus" species that resembles modern day chimpanzee throwing morphology. My, my, my, it is seldom that anthropology as a science can make such pretty predictions. But in the meantime we need to fully research the Throwing ability of Oreopithecus and compare it with the throwing abilities of Pierolapithecus. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies > And I can even make an educated guess as to where this species will be > found since Pierolapithecus was found in Spain and Oreopithecus found in > southern Italy that if we draw a line between the dig site in Spain and > the dig site in southern Italy that somewhere along that line is a dig > site that will find this "pithecus" species that resembles modern day > chimpanzee throwing morphology. On second thought, please do not hold me to a straight line geography from Spain to Southern Italy because I do not know what the landmasses looked like some 7 to 13 million years ago. I do not know what the Mediter. Sea looked like. Perhaps Italy and its islands were one land mass. So this new species of pithecus that resembles modern day chimpanzee in bone morphology of a quadraped that could throw underarm I predict will be found in Europe whether in southern Europe or in northern Europe or even maybe on a line drawn from the digsite of Pierolapithecus to the digsite of Oreopithecus. The important thing is that if the Stonethrowing theory is correct then Pierolapithecus evolved into a species much like modern day chimpanzee that was a quadraped but was able to throw underarm. Let me call it Underarmpithecus. This Underarmpithecus would evolve to the ability to throw overarm and let me call this new species Overarmpithecus. So where in Europe both Underarmpithecus and Overarmpithecus is found is not that important but it will be found in Europe. Then the Overarmpithecus would evolve to become Oreopithecus because Oreopithecus was a full overarm thrower of rocks and was biped. The Throwing overarm created bipedalism out of quadrapedalism. And it would take 2 to 3 to 4 more million years to transform the walking into running, but it is the Throwing that is the driving behaviour for change. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies > So where in Europe both Underarmpithecus and Overarmpithecus is found is not > that important but it will be found in Europe. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > into running, but it is the Throwing that is the driving behaviour for > change. It is highly likely that Oreopithecus itself was the Overarmpithecus. And if so then the only other missing link would be Underarmpithecus a descendent of Pierolapithecus ( a shame they did not name this pithecus as Piezopithecus as the "piero" reminds me of "piezo" as in piezoelectricity.) But I am not so sure that modern day anthropologists are even keen enough to see a difference in the RotatorCuff of chimpanzees from that of gorilla or baboon or orangutan or monkeys. I doubt whether more than a few persons in the science community that studies primate bones is able to recognize why the chimpanzee RotatorCuff is able to throw underarm and only chimps and humans have that signature for underarm throwing. After reading the article on Pierolapithecus I doubt our community of modern day anthropologists are even able to distinguish different species of ape bones if found mixed up. Is there a modern anthropologist if given 5 different RotatorCuffs of 5 different ape species able to tell apart those species? The RotatorCuff of Oreopithecus, if found, has it been determined whether Oreopithecus threw underarm? Threw overarm? Likewise for Orrorin same questions. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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