Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00237)

Daniel Caldwell and others once again disjoint my postings in order
to find reasons not to answer the points brought up in them. 

Dallas: The general theories current when the S D was written over 110
years ago, are still in place.

Brian, Dallas the above is not true, for example Michael Brass mentions 
that there are tausends not just a few fossils. And reg. The Secret 
Doctrine and what Brass writes:


It is a debatable point whether early Homo possessed a capacity for 
symbolism at c. 1.5 million years ago (mya).

The original usage of the term "Hominidae" encompassed those fossils 
regarded as being more closely aligned to Homo sapiens than to our 
nearest relative the chimpanzee, with whom we have 98.3% of our 
genes in common. In the last few years genetic evidence, combined
with new anatomical studies, has put forward a compelling case for
revision in order for the morphological similarities to be classified in a
clearer manner. 

Religions (like Theosophy) have been built up around factual events, 
cultural perspectives of the world and gross elaborations over time
until they come to be regarded as indisputable fact. 

Australopithecus robustus has smaller canine and incisor teeth than
its predecessor, A. africanus, although its face, brain and molars are
bigger with the postcanine teeth possessing thick enamel. It
possessed a cranial capacity of 475 cm3. 

The cranium and mandible discovered in 1994 reveal that the 
species' sexual dimorphism is greater than what had previously
been theorised and reinforces what was previously known, namely that 
A. robustus and early Homo were contemporaries in southern Africa. 

Australopithecus robustus comprises the majority of the skeletal
remains from Swartkrans, where many stone tools have been found, 
and the hominin also posses a hand morphology that is virtually the 
same as modern humans.

Bipedal apes had been in existence for a long time when Homo arrived. 
The human family emerged about 7.5 million years ago; Homo evolved 
sometime before two million years ago… It is true that modern
humans are bipedal apes in a sense, but the earliest hominids were 
bipedal apes, and no more. Only with Homo did the evolutionary 
equation change, and in a dramatic direction.

The above disputes the history of man as claimed on the Secret 
Doctrine. It is extracted from an article on my previous web site
about Michael Brass's book.
 
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