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Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O... by garmaine on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:41PM (#17533151)
Well, to that end the very first sentence of this article is wrong. These weren't carved by ancestors of anyone living today. This was homo erectus, a distant cousin.
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Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O... by alecco on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:03AM (#17534297)
Well, many Chinese scholars claim the Chinese are descendants from Homo Erectus.

It's even shown on a BBC documentary, they get disappointed when DNA analysis disproves their skull-shape "evidence".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Human_Journey#2...

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Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O... by garmaine on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:34PM (#17537219)
The fact that I have healthy half-chinese kids puts the nail in the coffin of that idea... among many other things. It's about as serious an idea as a flat earth or "intelligent design".
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