Re: Cro-Magnon Man

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: : : : : : : : There is talk that there may not have been a 'missing link' as we may think there was. Early Man was very nomadic and had evolved along the way of their travels, so there could have been many 'mini' missing links. Also, many Stone Age societies ate their dead and this would take many bones out of the record as well. : : : :in this case. I thought I had read however in a more recent article that either the Cro-Magnon was no longer thought to be included in the "sapiens" species or that the Neanderthal was. According to this book Neanderthal came before Cro-Magnon but I also thought I remembered reading they are now though to have existed at the same time. I'm aware that the lines of descent aren't as straight or stop and go as what was once believed and that even in our existing species there are memebers who have "odd" ancestoral relics that the general population doesn't have but still I'm not up on the latest findings so thought someone here might clear the matter up for me. Also, does anyone know which of our closest ancestors was around during the dinosaur age - 60 million years ago I believe? : : : Neanderthal is just upgraded because of more study of their cultures. : : : BTW, we are not Homo Sapiens, we are now classed as Homo Sapien Sapien. : : : The closes relative to us during the age of dinisaurs is a shrew-like mammal. : : Thanks for the info. I also found out a little on my own - one, that Neanderthal is now considered in the sapien species and like you said; we are now called sapien sapien because of this. Two, that Cro Magnon and Neanderthal were contemporaries. And three that the missing link of the beginning of the 20th century is believed to have been found in Africa - there's a name for it - starts with an S - but I can't remember now (my memory is terrible with scientific names). I know there are a lot of missing links all the way down the decent line - I recall one reason being is because many of our primitive ancestors lived in forested areas where decomposing is done more thouroughly. You'd think they'd drag themselves to a sediment deposit for our sake but I guess not. Perhaps that's what we can do to attain for the future generations. The shrew like mammal info surprised me - is it fairly certain? : There is evidence that there MAY have been a proto monkey, but that is : not conclusive yet. : If my replies seem strange is that today I have to use a Freenet : connection and the interface doesn't seem to be able to handle word : wrap too well.

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