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Originally Posted by Rissask
...The remains also confirm how much of a hybrid these creatures were between humans and apes. They had legs like humans that enabled them to walk upright , but they had shoulders like gorillas that may have also enabled them to climb trees; their teeth seem to have grown quickly, like chimps' teeth, but their brains may have matured more slowly, like humans...
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These hominids would thus have been far more sophisticated than we've been willing to admit so far.
In effect, they appear to have been far more technologically advanced than us Twenty First Century Homo Sapiens. Furthermore, they seem to have surpassed the very ethical and moral obstacles currently constraining stem cell and cloning research.
With such hybridization processes already mastered to such extraordinary plateaus, one would actually have to concede that we may in fact have regressed quite dramatically since then.
Consider for instance the physical constituton of some of these close Lucy relatives. Legs of an athlete; shoulders of Hercules; no nonsense teeth capable of tearing through just about any tissues, and evidently less susceptible to periodontal or dental decay, not to mention a more expeditious growth process, indicating fewer and less painful dental stages.
Ultimately they opted for a slower rate of maturing of the cerebral functions responsible for engaging in conflict, including emphasis upon the controlled engagement of religious superstition so as to minimize the erosion of such positive values as peaceful coexistence and intercourse with the 'other.'
My question is why are we still illuding ourselves with the myth of linear, and progressive evolution?