The Boskops Are Back! Redesigned and Reselected For the Final Battle?
The Boskops are back.
They are retooled, redesigned, and reselected.
Are they ready this time for domination of the species? They have found their way back from the lost world of the South African plains they inhabited more than 10,000 years ago.
Dismissed as an anomaly soon after their skull fragments were unearthed by a couple of farmers digging a drainage ditch in 1913, the scientific community has pretty much forgotten about the Boskops until recently.
The recent launch of the paperback edition of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence has added new life and new discussion to Boskop man.
The authors, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger, have a great deal of knowledge and expertise in neuroscience.
According to the authors and other scientists the Boskop forebrains were 30-50% larger than ours! The few skull fragments found indicated a humanoid with a face more childlike (pedomorphic) in appearance than us.
He had very large eyes and a small mouth.
The large head, large eyes, and small mouth, combined with a brain 30% more capable than our own, gave them an alien or superhuman look.
Loren Eiseley in The Immense Journey attributed super cerebral qualities to Boskop man and called him Future Man.
He frets that we are: forgetting the high artistic sensitivity which flowered in the closing Ice Age of Europe and which, oddly, blossomed here as well, lingering on even among the dwarfed Bushmen of the Kalahari.
What we can say is that perhaps the unloosed mechanism ran too fast, that the biological clock had sped them out of their time and place - a time which ten thousand years later has still not arrived.
This, then, was the logical end of complete foetalization: a desperate struggle to survive among a welter of more prolific and aggressive stocks.
Our brains do not have the cranial capacity of Boskop man.
Their skulls may have been too large for successful birthing.
The very large eyes may have been replaced by more efficient sensory synapses and cortical responses.
We hate to think of ourselves as less endowed than the Boskops.
Some are arrogant enough to suggest that they themselves, as individuals, are more gifted than the Boskops.
We cannot easily recognize them.
Gone are the large skulls, the childlike faces, and the huge eyes.
We can only know them by their attitudes and their actions.
Washington D.
C.
has a number of redesigned Boskops in positions of real power.
They are making decisions for us in their dark rooms.
They are clothed in secrecy and veiled in lies.
They are affecting the lives of our future generations.
What happened to the promises of transparency? Their cerebral superiority must be blinded by the naive thoughts of a new planet, or a New World Order.
Come back, Jake Sully.
Come back, Grace! There will be no duck-billed rhinos to save us when we are under attack.
There will be no dragon-headed, winged Velociraptors to lift us away from our problems.
There is no Pandora.
Maybe you are the one who is looking for the unobtanium.
I fear, as does Loren Eiseley in his Immense Journey, that the re-emergence of Boskop man will mark the end of the drama and foretell the extinction of a race.
I pray that it does not.
They are retooled, redesigned, and reselected.
Are they ready this time for domination of the species? They have found their way back from the lost world of the South African plains they inhabited more than 10,000 years ago.
Dismissed as an anomaly soon after their skull fragments were unearthed by a couple of farmers digging a drainage ditch in 1913, the scientific community has pretty much forgotten about the Boskops until recently.
The recent launch of the paperback edition of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence has added new life and new discussion to Boskop man.
The authors, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger, have a great deal of knowledge and expertise in neuroscience.
According to the authors and other scientists the Boskop forebrains were 30-50% larger than ours! The few skull fragments found indicated a humanoid with a face more childlike (pedomorphic) in appearance than us.
He had very large eyes and a small mouth.
The large head, large eyes, and small mouth, combined with a brain 30% more capable than our own, gave them an alien or superhuman look.
Loren Eiseley in The Immense Journey attributed super cerebral qualities to Boskop man and called him Future Man.
He frets that we are: forgetting the high artistic sensitivity which flowered in the closing Ice Age of Europe and which, oddly, blossomed here as well, lingering on even among the dwarfed Bushmen of the Kalahari.
What we can say is that perhaps the unloosed mechanism ran too fast, that the biological clock had sped them out of their time and place - a time which ten thousand years later has still not arrived.
This, then, was the logical end of complete foetalization: a desperate struggle to survive among a welter of more prolific and aggressive stocks.
Our brains do not have the cranial capacity of Boskop man.
Their skulls may have been too large for successful birthing.
The very large eyes may have been replaced by more efficient sensory synapses and cortical responses.
We hate to think of ourselves as less endowed than the Boskops.
Some are arrogant enough to suggest that they themselves, as individuals, are more gifted than the Boskops.
We cannot easily recognize them.
Gone are the large skulls, the childlike faces, and the huge eyes.
We can only know them by their attitudes and their actions.
Washington D.
C.
has a number of redesigned Boskops in positions of real power.
They are making decisions for us in their dark rooms.
They are clothed in secrecy and veiled in lies.
They are affecting the lives of our future generations.
What happened to the promises of transparency? Their cerebral superiority must be blinded by the naive thoughts of a new planet, or a New World Order.
Come back, Jake Sully.
Come back, Grace! There will be no duck-billed rhinos to save us when we are under attack.
There will be no dragon-headed, winged Velociraptors to lift us away from our problems.
There is no Pandora.
Maybe you are the one who is looking for the unobtanium.
I fear, as does Loren Eiseley in his Immense Journey, that the re-emergence of Boskop man will mark the end of the drama and foretell the extinction of a race.
I pray that it does not.
