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Dating your Ancestors is Complicated: The Strange Case of Homo Naledi
FromThis Anthro Life
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32 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2017
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Description
On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our ever evolving human family. How we understand our ancient ancestors, cousins, and ape family has the potential to impact our understanding of what it means to be human and how we are still changing. The new and exciting data we dive into this episode is all about Homo Naledi, perhaps the most recent addition to our family. As of the day we recorded this episode, April 25th, the first concrete date range for the species was publicized (but stay tuned for further developments). Rather than being very early (that is more ancient) and dating to the time of the earliest Homo Erectus specimens as originally hypothesized (some 2 million years ago), it now appears that Naledi was potentially a contemporary of the earliest Homo Sapiens (that’s us) ranging from 200 to 300 thousand years ago. This means we need to re-evaluate our genus once again and think about the complexities of dating our ancestors.
Quick definitions:
Species – a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding; Homo, Australopicus
Genus – one step below species on the taxonomic system: A. afarensis (Lucy), H. sapiens (us), H. neandertal, H. naledi
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Quick definitions:
Species – a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding; Homo, Australopicus
Genus – one step below species on the taxonomic system: A. afarensis (Lucy), H. sapiens (us), H. neandertal, H. naledi
Read more on thisanthrolife.com
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This episode is sponsored by
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thisanthrolife/support
Released:
Apr 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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