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Human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution

22 points by cmroanirgo 9y ago

mangamadaiyan 9y ago
"Challenge Evolution" seems to be a misleading title. The actual title from TFA is "300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution". Could one of the mods alter the title please?
- cmroanirgo 9y ago
  Sorry about that, I couldn't include the full title in the submission. I figured it was the best I could do, because if we challenge our understanding of evolution, haven't we also challenged what evolution is? I'm happy with any better suggestions though!
  - lgas 9y ago
    Increase the allowable title length? :)
  - washadjeffmad 9y ago
    "New human fossils reframe our evolutionary history"
  - thinkpad20 9y ago
    Even if the findings challenge what evolution is (which doesn’t seem to be the case — the course of human evolution is only one of millions of species over the years), the wording “challenges evolution” suggests that the findings cast the theory of evolution itself into doubt, which they clearly do not. As far as a way to save character count to include a more accurate title, eliminating the “300,000-year-old” part seems like it would work.
  - jsjohnst 9y ago
    > 300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge evolution “300k year old human fossils found in Morocco challenge human evolution timeline”
  - craftyguy 9y ago
    This isn't challenging our understanding of evolution, but it is challenging the timeline... those are two different things.
- horsecaptin 9y ago
  "300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco. Evolution! Updated." :P
- dang 9y ago
  Sure.
Charizma 9y ago
Meanwhile, reptiles lived for 180 million years.
proginthebox 9y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-morocco.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-mor... June 2017 news by NY Times. They did not even change the photo I think.
mythrwy 9y ago
So many breakthrough findings changing everything we know about human evolution. It's like JavaScript frameworks, I just can't keep up. Am waiting for the dust to settle then will read the "final" article. (Or the one after that).

22 points by cmroanirgo 9y ago

"Challenge Evolution" seems to be a misleading title. The actual title from TFA is "300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution". Could one of the mods alter the title please?

cmroanirgo 9y ago
Sorry about that, I couldn't include the full title in the submission. I figured it was the best I could do, because if we challenge our understanding of evolution, haven't we also challenged what evolution is? I'm happy with any better suggestions though!
- lgas 9y ago
  Increase the allowable title length? :)
- washadjeffmad 9y ago
  "New human fossils reframe our evolutionary history"
- thinkpad20 9y ago
  Even if the findings challenge what evolution is (which doesn’t seem to be the case — the course of human evolution is only one of millions of species over the years), the wording “challenges evolution” suggests that the findings cast the theory of evolution itself into doubt, which they clearly do not. As far as a way to save character count to include a more accurate title, eliminating the “300,000-year-old” part seems like it would work.
- jsjohnst 9y ago
  > 300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge evolution “300k year old human fossils found in Morocco challenge human evolution timeline”
- craftyguy 9y ago
  This isn't challenging our understanding of evolution, but it is challenging the timeline... those are two different things.
horsecaptin 9y ago
"300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco. Evolution! Updated." :P
dang 9y ago
Sure.

Charizma 9y ago

Meanwhile, reptiles lived for 180 million years.

proginthebox 9y ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-morocco.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-mor... June 2017 news by NY Times. They did not even change the photo I think.

mythrwy 9y ago

So many breakthrough findings changing everything we know about human evolution. It's like JavaScript frameworks, I just can't keep up. Am waiting for the dust to settle then will read the "final" article. (Or the one after that).