OUR REMOTE ANCESTORS
Dr. T. Rama Prasad May 1, 2019
How could we come into this world ? How are we able to communicate on digital media ? Amazing ... intriguing ... perplexing ... And, when will our "Human Being" species would become extinct just as it happened with many other species ?
How could we come into this world ? How are we able to communicate on digital media ? Amazing ... intriguing ... perplexing ... And, when will our "Human Being" species would become extinct just as it happened with many other species ?
CORONAVIRUS and 60,000 years old GENES
More than 30 years ago, I wrote in THE HINDU and INDIAN EXPRESS newspapers (see the attached photocopies) about the enigmatic and debatable subject of paleoanthropology concerning with our remote ancestors of millions of years ago. I wrote that in course of time we may literally unearth hitherto unknown contemporary hominid species which may change our opinions about evolution.
Now, the recent (2007 to 2019) fossil excavations from the Callao Cave (Luzon island – Philippines) indicate that another species (Homo luzonensis – so named as it was discovered in the Luzon island) existed 67,000 years ago as a contemporary to other species of that time. This species is having characters of both modern and ancient hominin.
Many of us think that we have evolved from apes or monkeys. With the present knowledge of 2019, we may say that we didn't. It seems that we are one of the several varieties of apes like orangutangs, gorillas and chimpanzees which evolved from a common ancestor, millions of years ago. The difference is that we, great apes, evolved distinctly acquiring various faculties and skills and became hominids, belonging to the taxonomic group Hominidae. So, apes are unlikely to be our ancestors, they may be our cousins. It's a matter of conjecture.
Our species, Homo sapiens, co-existed with another species called Homo Neanderthalensis which is no more. We don’t know when we and our species would be no more !!! Evolution is a highly complex long ongoing process – old species die out and new species form ... "a pedigree of prodigious length," as Charles Darwin put it, long long before any fossil was identified !
Cosmic disasters, natural calamities, nuclear warfare, drug-resistant microbes, pandemics of deadly viral diseases, life style related morbidities and mortalities, environmental destruction, etc. may end the present human species. When that happens, millions of years later, new species may develop and find our fossil bones and reconstruct images to guess how we were ... we don't know whether our digital records would be available to them and whether they would be able to decipher them !!! The interrupted evolution may start all over once again. This is what we can figure out on a larger canvas.
Some of my writings, the information and the graphics contained in this 'scribbling' are reprinted from THE HINDU and INDIAN EXPRESS ... thanks to the publishers.
Our species, Homo sapiens, co-existed with another species called Homo Neanderthalensis which is no more. We don’t know when we and our species would be no more !!! Evolution is a highly complex long ongoing process – old species die out and new species form ... "a pedigree of prodigious length," as Charles Darwin put it, long long before any fossil was identified !
Cosmic disasters, natural calamities, nuclear warfare, drug-resistant microbes, pandemics of deadly viral diseases, life style related morbidities and mortalities, environmental destruction, etc. may end the present human species. When that happens, millions of years later, new species may develop and find our fossil bones and reconstruct images to guess how we were ... we don't know whether our digital records would be available to them and whether they would be able to decipher them !!! The interrupted evolution may start all over once again. This is what we can figure out on a larger canvas.
Some of my writings, the information and the graphics contained in this 'scribbling' are reprinted from THE HINDU and INDIAN EXPRESS ... thanks to the publishers.
CORONA EFFECT 2020 In future, people will be born with a mask like membrane covering the face ! Anatomy books will list one more organ in the body -- 'Face membrane' !
And, the cosmetics industry will market a huge range of 'Facemembrane' products !
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| CONFUSION CONFOUNDED ... again today (01.05.2019) there is the news that footprints of the mysterious ape-like creature, 'YETI' are sighted (by the Indian Army team) !!! |
Dr. T. Rama Prasad,
'PAY WHAT YOU CAN’ Clinic, Perundurai, Erode Dt., TN, India.
Former Medical Superintendent (Special), RTS & IRT Perundurai Medical College and Research Centre, Perundurai.
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