what's your favorite ancestral hominid?

[datasuspect]

i have to go with australopithecus.

[Skink]

1. I like Lucy...

:hi:

[wtmusic]

2. Archae

He thinks, he talks, he walks upright (most of the time)

[man4allcats]

4. This one gets my vote, too.

A true living fossil!

[phusion]

3. Ancestry is still debatable...

I like neanderthals...



Some anthropologists say they died off, others say they were assimilated into the homosapien population through interbreeding...

Maybe it's just the mystery behind it all.

[Robeson]

8. Yes, I would like to think that they assimilated, but given the history...

...homosapiens, extermination is probably the most viable theory, though not pleasant to consider.

[starroute]

5. I'd probably have to say Turkana Boy

I used to be real fond of #1470, but now it's looking less likely that he's actually ancestral.

Turkana Boy, on the other hand, seems pretty solid.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. I'm kind of partial to Homo habilis myself.

The first ancestral humans to leave behind manufactured stone tools.



I also really like the little newly discovered "hobbits".

[Robeson]

7. The "hobbits" are amazing in that they existed up to relatively modern..

...times. They will be a very interesting study.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

9. Which australopithecene?......................................

Personally, I like robustus and boisei.