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Lamprey Brain Cell Evolution

China: Scientists Reconstruct “Evolutionary History” of Vertebrate Brain! (5.11.2026)

Futurism requires the development of a) technology (which can see more), and b) improved methodology used to assess the increased and improved data-stream. During the 1850-1860s, British scientists possessed around “six” dinosaur fossils recreated in concrete to be display in the Hyde Park Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 (infact, these concrete models were moved to a different part of London soon after – and are still viewable in Sydenham Hill in South London – an area now known as “Crystal Palace”). The point is that no one at the time understood what these creatures were – or that they lived millions of years a part in time. Humanity had discovered these remains – but lacked the knowledge and understanding to contextualise their existence. Today, human understanding has progressed incredibly and the knowledge-base is incomparable. Futurism stresses that our understanding in the present moment is deficiient and incompleye – and that we must strive to always improve our understanding.

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Posterior view of the crania of several hominids

South Africa: “Little Foot” Early Human Skeleton May Belong to Unknown Species! (1.11.2026)

For years, most paleoanthropologists believed that A. prometheus and Australopithecus africanus were so similar that they probably belonged to the same species. Jesse Martin of La Trobe University initially shared this view. However, a detailed examination of a key region at the back of Little Foot’s skull changed his perspective. This area corresponds precisely to the fossil fragment originally used to define A. prometheus in 1948. The researchers identified at least three major anatomical differences. The skull’s morphology shows greater similarities to much older hominins than to A. africanus, while also ruling out the possibility that Little Foot was simply a late-surviving representative of an ancient lineage.

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Jurassic bird Yuezhuornis

China: Jurassic [Flightless] Bird Fossil Challenges Traditional Avian Evolutionary View! (16.10.2026)

The transition from land-dwelling dinosaurs to flying birds is one of the most remarkable events in the history of life, involving changes in the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems, skin-derived structures and behaviour, said Wang, the study’s corresponding author and a co-first author.

Macro-evolutionary models suggest that birds originated and began diversifying during the Jurassic Period. However, the scarcity of bird fossils from this critical period has left scientists with limited direct evidence of how the characteristic bird body plan emerged.

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Human Brain Folds PRC 2026

China: Scientists reveal mechanism behind evolution of brain folds regulated by ancient gene! (11.10.2026)

However, a research team led by Shi Lei, a researcher from the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed an alternative possibility: certain ancient and highly conserved genes could also play a key role in human brain evolution by reshaping their expression levels through changes in regulatory elements.

The team compared transcriptomic data from different layers of the embryonic cerebral cortex of mice, tree shrews, marmosets, macaques and humans. They found that an ancient gene called “CCNB1IP1” was already expressed in the brain of the tree shrew, a close relative of primates, long before primates emerged but at relatively low expression levels.

The team further discovered that during the following course of evolution, the expression level of this ancient gene showed a clear stepwise increase among tree shrews, marmosets, macaques and humans, reaching its highest level in the human brain.

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La Trobe archaeologists have described 18 new hominin fossils including a second Homo erectus skull fragment confirming the species’ first appearance was in southern Africa 2.0 million years ago – 200,000 years earlier than traditionally thought.

South Africa: Fossils Confirm Homo Erectus Present 2 Million-Years Ago [200,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought]! (3.11.2026)

“Homo erectus is the first species of hominin that researchers broadly agree fits within our own genus Homo and is likely directly ancestral to us. Drimolen preserves evidence for the first appearance of this species 2 million years ago, however the original fossil, DNH 134, belonged to a child aged between two and four, and there was uncertainty about what the adult version may have looked like,” lead researcher Dr Jesse Martin said.

“This paper publishes a new adult fossil attributed to Homo erectus, DNH 127, providing further confirmation that this species first appeared in southern Africa 2 million years ago.”

The researchers have also been able to confirm that P. robustus underwent micro-evolution, and evolved larger teeth and chewing muscles between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago.

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Muslims Do Not Practice "Usury" - So Why Not "Gift" this Collection to the British People!

Abu Dhabi: The Irony is that Muslims Do Not “Believe” in Evolution! (9.8.2026)

Indeed, not mentioned in this article is the possibility that as the UAE is given billions of dollars every year to “turn a blind eye” to Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, it is highly likely that the British tax-payer has financed the loss of its own material culture. Yes – our hard-earned tax has been “given” to a deluded Islamicist State that supports Israel (a type of “bribe” to look the over way as the piles of dead children mount) so that the UAE can simply “re-fund” some of our British tax in exchange for the ownership of irreplicable (natural) culture. As Starmer and Burnham are hell-bent on supporting the Israeli “Genocide” – why is it the UK government has not seen fit to re-direct a modest section of that pro-Islamicist and pro-Israeli finance package back into the well-being of the British people? Then, my family could just take a leisurely stroll down the road into the British Museum to witness our own evolutionary development – instead of having to book aeroplane tickets to one of the most violent places on earth. As matters stand, I believe the righteous missiles of Iran have been dropping on the UAE as a punishment for that country permitting the US to launch illegal military strikes at Tehran. Our British fossils have survived millions of years so far – but the odds are they may not survive much longer due to the Israeli Zionist terror-strikes! And yes – I hold Israel fully responsible because the UK government, without my knowledge or consent, is giving my tax to Tel Aviv (Jaffa) to commit “Genocide” in Gaza as confirmed by the UN.

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