Pseuds Sperg at the Smithsonian

evolutionnews.org/2015/12/smithsonians_tr/
Were they justified in doing so?

>check out this early human
>it's a fucking monkey

Pretty sure they just meant hominin, but just made it easier to digest.

It doesn't matter, a human is a species of hominid. It's like saying this "primitive cat is actually a dog." No it fucking isn't.

>It's like saying this "primitive cat is actually a dog." No it fucking isn't.
It'd be more apt to say this "primitive felimforme (basal cat-like animal) is an ancient cat." It's inaccurate, but not completely wrong.

>everything that constitutes a human is absent from this animal therefore it's an early human aside from the fact it has a tail and completely different skull and can't walk on it's hind legs.

>Paranthropus boisei or Australopithecus boisei was an early hominin, described as the largest of the Paranthropus genus (robust australopithecines).

>australopithecines

>The australopithecines occurred in the Plio-Pleistocene era and were bipedal, and they were dentally similar to humans, but with a brain size not much larger than that of modern apes, with lesser encephalization than in the genus Homo. Humans (genus Homo) may have descended from australopithecine ancestors and the genus Ardipithecus is a possible ancestor of the australopithecines.

Hominids =/= humans

>hominids=/=hominins
>hominins~humans

So if they were so human, why did they die out?