When looking deep into ancient folklore, I happen to fall on descriptions of many kinds of humanoids like the minotaur, the centaur and the werewolf.
It thus sounds bizarre to me that recorded human history starts only with plain humans and does not talk about these not-so-alien individuals. If we consider humanoids are only (imaginative?) mixes of some already existing animal species and the human we know of today, they're not looking so mean.
My idea about this: humans result of crossed animal instincts and bodies. Half the way up would have lived the humanoids told about in legends.
For birds could run on two feet (ostrich), talk (parrot), sing and use tools (in fact, branches) well before the australopithecus ever did. And unless i'm wrong, elephants still own bigger brains than the homo sapiens do, while our brain/body mass ratio may have been once bested by some ultra light & cartilagenous species (i.e. birds again, or snakes which did not even own bones).
2007-05-16 07:35:13 · 2 answers · asked by Roy Nicolas 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology