Just looking at the pictures, eyeballing them rather than taking a set of calipers to them, it looks far and away more like what Eugene Dubois called a "pithecanthropus" ("Java Man", "Solo man") than a human to me. Java Man was a variant of Homo Erectus local to Asia.
The small brain capacity coupled with the long, low cranial vault leading to just above the eyes with no discernible forehead, as well as the unnaturally flat cranial base and the huge face (compared to brain-case size) all come together to make it look more Erectus-like than human-like to me.
What they are mistaking as "human" features appears to be seriously reduced brow-ridges a flatter face, and a more projecting chin (although it does not project enough to reach human proportions).
Those features don't combine to make it "human", however, in the absence of a brain capacity approaching human brains, They just make it a modified pithecanthropine in my book.
Also, look at those eyes - how huge and widely spaced they are. That tells me that whatever this species is, it was a nocturnal creature, and probably had a much wider field of vision than humans do.
Lots of unusual finds coming out of Asia these days I wonder if China has a factory for that, too? It makes me uneasy that China won't allow DNA testing of any of their specimens, and that they are so poorly placed time-wise. Things that make you go "hmmm..."
China has long been out to "prove" humans originated in Asia rather than Africa, but they'll never gather any serious consideration for the notion until they allow more thorough testing. It's suspicious that they won't even consider it.
Either way, I still think humans originated in either the Levant or Southeastern Turkey, and radiated outward in all directions from that origin point. I don't believe either China OR Africa has any serious claims to be the birthplace of humanity.
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The small brain capacity coupled with the long, low cranial vault leading to just above the eyes with no discernible forehead, as well as the unnaturally flat cranial base and the huge face (compared to brain-case size) all come together to make it look more Erectus-like than human-like to me.
What they are mistaking as "human" features appears to be seriously reduced brow-ridges a flatter face, and a more projecting chin (although it does not project enough to reach human proportions).
Those features don't combine to make it "human", however, in the absence of a brain capacity approaching human brains, They just make it a modified pithecanthropine in my book.
Also, look at those eyes - how huge and widely spaced they are. That tells me that whatever this species is, it was a nocturnal creature, and probably had a much wider field of vision than humans do.
Lots of unusual finds coming out of Asia these days I wonder if China has a factory for that, too? It makes me uneasy that China won't allow DNA testing of any of their specimens, and that they are so poorly placed time-wise. Things that make you go "hmmm..."
China has long been out to "prove" humans originated in Asia rather than Africa, but they'll never gather any serious consideration for the notion until they allow more thorough testing. It's suspicious that they won't even consider it.
Either way, I still think humans originated in either the Levant or Southeastern Turkey, and radiated outward in all directions from that origin point. I don't believe either China OR Africa has any serious claims to be the birthplace of humanity.
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