By: Petr Jandacek

Petr Jandacek — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:21:29 +0000

> Ode to Multiregional Human Evolution
> Petr Jandáček 2011
>
> There was a crooked man who walked a crooked path
> of Darwin’s Evolution.
> As Science it is new and facts there are but few
> well seasoned with confusion.
>
> From lowly shrews – insectivores – it seems – the primates came.
> The Lemuroids and Tarsieroids have very little fame.
> The Monkeys are much better known – from New World and from Old.
> Gorilla, Orang, Chimp and Gibbon are man-like we are told.
>
> From Apes to Man the gap is wide -
> for a long time left apart
> Till small Australopithecus
> was found by Raymond Dart.
>
> How long have they been on the scenes?
> Those cute Australo-pithecenes….
> How and when they reached each haunt?
> Perhaps they started in Levant??
>
> From there through warm Eurasian band?
> And southward through all African land
> As they travelled – they would find
> Related types of ape-men-kind.
>
> Hominids of many strange shapes
> Crossed with bonobos and other such apes.
> Gorillas, Chimps and Bonobos did their forest thing
> While bipedal relatives had their naked fling.
>
> Like Timber Wolf of northern snow
> Has no qualms, but wants to know
> The carnal charms of Dingo Sheila
> Or Jackal bitch, or cute Akita.
>
> Like all Canines on this Earth
> Our forebears – bred — gave birth
> Left their genes with all uncouth
> Anywhere they’d find some mirth,
>
> As long as genes of Human-kind
> Meshed as still ALL Doggie-kind
> DNA would ebb and flow
> And recombine towards high and low.
>
> Thus, we see on Line of Wallace
> Austalopithecus on Isle of Flores
> Some — thirteen thousand years ago
> Maybe later… the Dutch would know.
>
> Australopithecus of Latter-Day
> On Flores Island - I would say
> Is better way to name that type
> Brainette for “Homo” is un-ripe.
>
> Most would die but some survived
> Some would kill, and thus had thrived.
> Settled types and new-comers
> Produced better survivors.
>
>
>
> North America had primates in days of yore.
> South America has monkeys yet – from shore to shore.
> Pliopithecus and Dryopithecus of Europe’s past
> Were Hominins too – - so not so fast!
>
> As BuzzWord it may be – all the rage
> But “Out of Everywhere-ica” can upstage
> The paradigm we had learnt to take
> May yet be nothing but a fake.
>

By: Petr Jandacek

Petr Jandacek — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:13:20 +0000

Names and categories of our close relatives will continue to be misused. it does not matter much if we use a term like Hominin or Hominid. The little small brained Homini#s which were found on Flores Island, Indonesia are still called Homo Floresiensis. With a brain that is so tiny – only pathological cases deserve to be called “Homo”. Much better term would be : “LATTER-DAY AUSTRALOPITHECUS FLORESIENSIS”!

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