New fossil finds suggest that Africa is not the original birthplace of
EARLY ANTHROPOID PRIMATES - and I'll bet that one day we'll find that
"out of Antarctica" preceded "out of Asia" for our own ancient
anthropoid primate line.
New Fossil Points To 'Out of Asia' Theory
The origin of anthropoids — the simians, or "higher primates," which include monkeys, apes and humans — has been debated for decades
among scientists. Although fossils unearthed in Egypt have long
suggested that Africa was the cradle for anthropoids, other bones
revealed in the last 15 years or so raised the possibility that Asia may be their birthplace. ..
An international team of scientists has unearthed a new fossil in Southeast Asia that may prove that anthropoids originated in what is now the East, shedding light on a pivotal step in primate and human evolution ... The fossil is named Afrasia djijidae ...
The teeth of 37-million-year-old Afrasia closely resemble those of another early anthropoid, the 38-million-year-old Afrotarsius libycus,
recently discovered in the Sahara Desert of Libya. The anthropoids in
Libya were far more diverse at that early time in Africa than scientists
had thought, which suggested they actually originated elsewhere. The
close similarity between Afrasia and Afrotarsius now suggests that early anthropoids colonized Africa from Asia.
Significantly, these two anthropoids (
Afrasia and
Afrotarsius) are 37 million and 38 million years old, respectively. The
Eocene epoch lasted from 56 to 33.9 million years ago, so the first 18 million years of anthropoid primate evolution during Eocene epoch is unaccounted for - Antartctica could have been the home of our earliest anthropoid primate ancestors during those first 18 million years of the Eocene. No anthropoid primate fossil aged earlier than 38 million years ago have been found (to date) in either Asia or Africa -
go Antarctica!
The scientific evidence for an Antarctic origin for our earliest anthropoid primate ancestors just keeps piling up!
My ancestors, even my not-yet-human ones are freaking awesome! and their voices still live in me!
In follow-up to my previous post (Soul Migration to Primordial Antarctica), on Eocene primate evolutionary origins:
The other group of haplorhine primates, anthropoids (from which
monkeys, apes, and humans evolved), also first appears in the Eocene
fossil record. Over the past 25 years in particular, our knowledge of
anthropoid origins has expanded greatly due to new fossil discoveries. A
number of these putative fossil anthropoids, however, are quite
controversial and are the source of much debate. The geographic origin
of anthropoids is also a contentious issue, with competing theories
alternatively suggesting either Asia or Africa as the most likely
source.
Of course, since Antarctica has since been in the grip of
glacial ice sheets for millions of years, we wouldn't be aware of any Eocene
primate fossils lurking there buried in the land now buried under the
ice.
How
did the first primordial primates make it to all of the diverse
continents of the world? Right before the Eocene, all of the continents
we know today were still joined together into a supercontinent called
Gondwana - and at the beginning of the Eocene (when the earliest
ancestral anthropoid primate line first evolved), Anarctica was still
joined to Australia and South America.
By the beginning of the
Eocene, Gondwana had ALMOST split apart, but Australia, Antarctica and South America remained joined. The Antarctic portion of Gondwana
straddled the South Pole but because the global climate was warmer it
was free of ice and snow. A forested corridor linked Australia and South
America.
Genetic memory tells me that our earliest ancestral
primate line first evolved in Antarctica, and science has no
significance evidence to the contrary of what my genetic memory has
revealed to me. Equally significantly, science does support the
plausible possibility that what my genetic memory has revealed could in
fact be true - First, during the Eocene, Antarctica was a warm forest
covered land quite capable of hosting early primate (anthropoid)
evolution. Second, during the Eocene early primates are known by science
to have inhabited every major warm continent currently amenable to
exploration by fossil hunters. Third, warm forested Eocene Antarctica
was still joined to continents proven by science to have hosted early
primate evolution - so a physical way for early primates to migrate to
and/or inhabit Antarctica did in fact exist during the Eocene epoch.
Consequently, there is no reason to suppose that ancient warm Antarctica
(like the rest of the ancient major warm continents) did not also host
primate evolution as did the others. In fact, the known scientific facts
support that Antarctica very likely also hosted early primate
evolution.
In summary, the known facts of science support the
plausibility and good scientific probability that my shamanic dream
experience delivered to me information, critically evaluated in the
light of scientific rationality, more likely to be true than not true.
Background - Yesterday I listed for sale at my Etsy shoppe shark teeth and Sahara Sea creature remains from the Eocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by the emergence of the first modern mammals and lasted from about 56 to 34 million years ago . The dinosaurs were already extinct during the Eocene Epoch, but huge predators still ruled the sea. I also posted on my shoppe Facebook page a video discussing the source of consciousness as hidden and taught in Old Norse myths. In the video, the Nine Daughters of Ægir are also discussed as they pertain to this source of conscious awareness. The emergence of the first primitive mammals (mouse-like creatures) following the extinction of the dinosaurs (during an epoch earlier than the Eocene, namely in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, often referred to as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, which occurred approximately 65.5 million years ago) links to my mouse fylgja. Extinction of the dinosaurs is linked by science to extinctions of ocean floor species following asteroid impact.
Early this morning, I dreamt a dream of bringing up a giant (jotun) creature from the Ancient Sea. The creature was at once also me.
I was on a exploring research ship sailing upon the Dark Sea in a liminal time containing both all time and timelessness. We lowered down a large net into the depths of Dark Sea, seeking to bring up something very important, very ancient, very mysterious.
We brought up an ancient cocoon-like liminal-like bubble shell-craft in which an Ancient Creature had been preserved. The Ancient Creature was both a sea creature and me at the same time. As a sea creature, the bubble ship and its content reminded me of a giant clam-like creature. As me, it reminded me of a hibernating human form with all its books and computer gadgets resting in a time capsule cocoon of some sort. It had been brought up to the surface - I felt the creature's "studies" would now reawaken.
The dream changed.
As one among three couples, we had moved into a long-shaped apartment (brings to mind now a Viking longship), though we all had private living spaces. One of the males of the couples, named Jeff (derived from German Gottfried, meaning "Divine peace"), the companion of one of my "sisters", had been charged to find us our apartment. He had done well. We were all pleased. We were moving into this apartment because of a new research job-study we were all participating in.
One of my sisters had the job of being the homemaker. The rest of us had jobs outside of the home. I recall the floors being vacuumed in preparation for our move into the new apartment.
My new state of the art high tech computer software was being set up and configured for the research project. During the set-up, I had a bit of difficulty with the number 2 on the touch screen. I had to try several times before touching the number 2 right, getting my touch to strike the screen right to get my entry to take. It "took" on the third try.
After setup, I saw and also wanted a cool sleek black backpack like the one being carried by one of my sisters, so I could carry my computer stuff around with me too. I put in my order for one. Fossilized amber was associated with unlocking and accessing our computers. (Amber is associated with Freyja and ancient witchcraft.)
I woke up. I also listed a few specimens (
here and
here) of copal amber from Madagascar yesterday on my Etsy shoppe. During my last ritual blot (
Haustblot), I had placed my own more ancient fossilized amber with fossil inclusions on my harrow in honor of Freyja.
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