Apes to Humans .
Mans bipedalism (ability to walk upright ) requires a more precise balancing mechanism than creatures that go on all fours . Fossil men and apes can be distinguished by examining the labyrinth , a hard bony structure of the inner ear that is preserved during fossilisation . Professor Bernard Wood of University of Liverpool did computerised tomography scans of inner ears of fossil apes and man . Man , who is bipedal , has a more complex pattern of the labyrinth than Knuckle walking apes . Man requires a more sophisticated balancing mechanism . There are no intermediate patterns .
Among the
fossil hominids , the earliest to demonstrate the modern human
morphology is Homo Erectus . In contrast the semi circular dimensions in
crania from Southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and
Paranthropus resemble those of ...the extinct great apes .
Nature 23rd June 1994 , page 645 .
"There are not enough fossil records to answer WHEN , WHERE and HOW homo sapiens emerged."
Takahata , Molecular anthropology , Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1995 p355 .
Spanish and American researches used CT scans to measure the bones and spaces in the outer and middle ears of five specimens , thought to be Homo heidelbergensis. They then worked out how well the hearing apparatus they found could respond to various frequencies . Like modern humans the hominids ears would have been sensitive to frequencies in the range from 2 to 4 kilohertz , suggesting that they too could distinguish the sounds of speech . Chimpanzees ears are relatively insensitive at those frequencies .
New Scientist 26 June 2004 .
Not only are chimps not in the same league as men and women when it comes to converstation , but their sense of musical harmony leaves much to be desired :
Monkeys do not prefer sounds that are harmonious to human ears . Suggesting that people have a unique appreciation of music . Even young infants enjoy hearing consonant intervals more , suggesting that PEOPLE ARE HARD WIRED WITH THE PREFERENCE AT BIRTH .
New Scientist 25 September 2004 page 17 .
"Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations . Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is ABSENT ALTOGETHER."
Return to the planet of the apes , Henry Gee , Nature Vol 412 , 12 July 2001 , p 131 .
Nature 23rd June 1994 , page 645 .
"There are not enough fossil records to answer WHEN , WHERE and HOW homo sapiens emerged."
Takahata , Molecular anthropology , Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1995 p355 .
Spanish and American researches used CT scans to measure the bones and spaces in the outer and middle ears of five specimens , thought to be Homo heidelbergensis. They then worked out how well the hearing apparatus they found could respond to various frequencies . Like modern humans the hominids ears would have been sensitive to frequencies in the range from 2 to 4 kilohertz , suggesting that they too could distinguish the sounds of speech . Chimpanzees ears are relatively insensitive at those frequencies .
New Scientist 26 June 2004 .
Not only are chimps not in the same league as men and women when it comes to converstation , but their sense of musical harmony leaves much to be desired :
Monkeys do not prefer sounds that are harmonious to human ears . Suggesting that people have a unique appreciation of music . Even young infants enjoy hearing consonant intervals more , suggesting that PEOPLE ARE HARD WIRED WITH THE PREFERENCE AT BIRTH .
New Scientist 25 September 2004 page 17 .
"Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations . Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is ABSENT ALTOGETHER."
Return to the planet of the apes , Henry Gee , Nature Vol 412 , 12 July 2001 , p 131 .
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