JRenee
Writer, Inventor, Quantum Activist
As I've studied early human evolution and tools, I find myself wondering why the classic "chain of evolution" picture starts with a small ape hominid and then proceeds to get bigger until it reaches our height and posture of modern homosapien sapiens... especially when we have unearthed fossils standing 7ft and taller of archaic man. Why does the picture only suggest that we evolved from small apes when science keeps finding giant hominids more often than the little australpithicus aferensis, "Lucy"? and even rarer still, the homo floresiensis or "Hobbits".
Meet Homo-Heidelbergensis, a meganthropus often called "Homo-rhodesiensis" averaging 8 feet tall. That was just average! The tallest giant of giants was estimated 10-15 feet tall (Castlenau Giant/Montpellier giants) He walked with the typical "caveman posture", hunched over, shoulder muscles engulfing his neck, giving him a rather brutish appearance. Very strong upper body strength, known for making large stone axes. Massive knee and ankle bones, enormous feet and toe bones (they had to be massive to support his 500lb-1500lb weight)... How did they come to be?
Megafauna existed in many (I could say nearly all) species, the largest centipede (the arthropleura) fossil found was 8ft long (alive 250 million years ago), giant sloths, giant bears, giant horses, giant mammoths, giant birds, giant sharks... do I really have to mention the giant lizards that roamed around long before that? ... But what about hominins? what made them start small but grow so tall? the amount of oxygen in the air? an abundance of food? was it simply a gradual mutation (evolution) from the sun's radiation? ... Aliens?
Could the ancient Chinese giant ape, gigantopithecus, have fooled around with early hominins? (ouch!)
Why don't science books talk about meganthropus but they talk about Lucy? How come it seems most other animals evolved from a large animal and shrank down in size over the years while we've started small and expanded?
I'd just like to point out, Castlenau and Montpellier are in France... the same place that Andre the Giant was from. http://rephaim23.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/prehistoric-giants-of-france-and-spain/
Meet Homo-Heidelbergensis, a meganthropus often called "Homo-rhodesiensis" averaging 8 feet tall. That was just average! The tallest giant of giants was estimated 10-15 feet tall (Castlenau Giant/Montpellier giants) He walked with the typical "caveman posture", hunched over, shoulder muscles engulfing his neck, giving him a rather brutish appearance. Very strong upper body strength, known for making large stone axes. Massive knee and ankle bones, enormous feet and toe bones (they had to be massive to support his 500lb-1500lb weight)... How did they come to be?
Megafauna existed in many (I could say nearly all) species, the largest centipede (the arthropleura) fossil found was 8ft long (alive 250 million years ago), giant sloths, giant bears, giant horses, giant mammoths, giant birds, giant sharks... do I really have to mention the giant lizards that roamed around long before that? ... But what about hominins? what made them start small but grow so tall? the amount of oxygen in the air? an abundance of food? was it simply a gradual mutation (evolution) from the sun's radiation? ... Aliens?
Could the ancient Chinese giant ape, gigantopithecus, have fooled around with early hominins? (ouch!)
Why don't science books talk about meganthropus but they talk about Lucy? How come it seems most other animals evolved from a large animal and shrank down in size over the years while we've started small and expanded?
I'd just like to point out, Castlenau and Montpellier are in France... the same place that Andre the Giant was from. http://rephaim23.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/prehistoric-giants-of-france-and-spain/