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Quote by: The Dunedan  Techno, you do realize, do you not, that the relevant comparison between humans and other primates is not head/skull size but the size of the brain? Other primates, most noteably Gorillas, have -MUCH- larger skulls than we do, and feature large bone "keels" to which the powerful Facio-maxillary muscles attatch. These also serve to protect the brain.
Before you start slinging these "theories" around, you might want to do some research, or maybe talk to someone who is knowledgeable in the field. I myself hold a degree in Physical Anthropology, so I'm quite familliar with the anatomy, morphology, and development of the human skull. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask...preferably before posting something of this kind again. |
Gorillas have larger head sizes but also have larger body sizes then do humans, they got larger everything because they are bigger then most humans. I did not mean to denote size by simple measurments. But size relative to the rest of the body and also in particular the forehead area.
When the evolutionist digs up old bones they look at the shape of the skull to determine if it is human or not, most primates have smaller (slanted) foreheads other then human types. If Gollias have larger skulls then they should have larger brains also, or do you suggest the shull is filled with empty space?
Humans have hands simular to that of a racoon and less fur then most animals and that hairlessness plus close mathing DNA would put humans in the same "box" with earthworms. But I am not posting a post about why humans are different then other animals, but rather, about the "cause and effects" for evolution in referrence to the human head size.
A human woman has trouble giving birth because of our larger head size (relative to our body size), causing the woman pain and sometimes death.
I doubt if a Gollia suffers the same kinds of labor pains as do human females, and it is the enlarged head size that causes that difference.
Again I am not posting about why humans are different the Gollias but why humans evolved a larger head size as compared with the "missing link" pre-human primate. My solution for that problem that science is unable to solve is logical enough.
The only other logical answer would be that humans were re-created from primates as a thinking workforce for aliens and the genetic experiment (crossing the genes of a primate with those of an alien) went a bit koo koo and so sex was thought to be taboo until Eve proved it could be done with success.
The latter idea did not recieve much welcome from the scientific community.
But if Aliens did use primates in an attempt to clone a intelligent workforce in their own images then that would be the answer to the puzzle. I guess you could try to test that in your own labortory by attempting to clone a human but using a Ape to give birth to the infant. But you might have to wait until humans are more knowagable about genes, DNA, and all factors concerned first, so that corrections could be made to get a decent match.
Or you could test my theory and hit your old lady on the head and see if a bump appears. ( okay, that was in fact a joke and has nothing to do with the evolutions of skulls).
But you are correct about the ability of the human brain to think things out, a Gollia is not much of a thinker. And the most intelligent of primates within the so-called animal kingdom has limited thinking abilties compared with humans, a chimp might know how to communicate with hollers and grunts but they cannot write profound poems nor anything close to the Consitution of the United States.
The thinking brain was perhaps the end result of diets where they ate mind expanding mushrooms (whatever?) and that triggered the growth of glands that produced the imagination and other human qualities of thinking. Where as other animals did not have receptors in their brians to gain the same effects that humans now enjoy having.
Here is a webpage for supportive data
Fossil Hominids, Human Evolution: Thomas Huxley & Eugene Dubois