{"id":5236,"date":"2023-04-05T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2023-04-05T02:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:19:21","slug":"who-were-the-boskops-and-were-they-really-smarter-than-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/05\/who-were-the-boskops-and-were-they-really-smarter-than-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Were The Boskops And Were They Really Smarter Than Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[EDIT &#8211; okay, seems like this is probably nonsense. See the link at the end]<\/p>\n<p>Prehistoric <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eloi\">Eloi<\/a>! Pretty speculative though. Via C.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\">The idea that giant-brained people were not so long ago walking the dusty plains of South Africa was sufficiently shocking to draw in the luminaries back in England. Two of the most prominent anatomists of the day, both experts in the reconstruction of skulls, weighed in with opinions generally supportive of Haughton\u2019s conclusions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\">The Scottish scientist Robert Broom <\/span><span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\"><a class=\"sc-8pb8t8-0 bmSGPg ydadvh-0 eBaWns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v116\/n2929\/abs\/116897a0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a><\/span><span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\"> that \u201cwe get for the corrected cranial capacity of the Boskop skull the very remarkable figure of 1,980 cc.\u201d Remarkable indeed: These measures say that the distance from Boskop to humans is greater than the distance between humans and their Homo erectus predecessors.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/mind\/what-happened-to-the-hominids-who-may-have-been-smarter-than-us?utm_campaign=organicsocial&amp;utm_content=these_hominids_%E2%80%94_a_now-ex&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook\">Who Were The Boskops And Were They Really Smarter Than Us?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Buuuuuut see also this critique:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnhawks.net\/weblog\/return-of-the-amazing-boskops\/\">https:\/\/johnhawks.net\/weblog\/return-of-the-amazing-boskops\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[EDIT &#8211; okay, seems like this is probably nonsense. See the link at the end] Prehistoric Eloi! Pretty speculative though. Via C. The idea that giant-brained people were not so long ago walking the dusty plains of South Africa was sufficiently shocking to draw in the luminaries back in England. Two of the most prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1ms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}