CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erik Trinkaus
26 Nov 2015
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Title: strange fossils from china don"t seem to fit any known hominin species. Main idea: mar a martin n-torres doesn"t think the fossilized teeth represent a new species. 1. martin n-torres is reluctant to claim that the teeth represent a new species. 2. darren curnoe said strongly suggests the presence of a previously unrecognized species. 3. matthew skinner said fossil samples from asia are so sparse that it is hard to infer species status. 4. fred spoor says the remains show a mix of modern and primitive features. 5. erik trinkaus says many of the supposedly separate homo species might just be variants of a single species. A. there was probably more than one species of early human in asia, which wouldn"t be surprising considering the size of the continent and how isolated it is. B. some of these populations could even have been ancestors of modern europeans. C. most think africa was the cradle of modern humans, so this is controversial.
