MDE3 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2004 Wow, can you put all that into English? Hominid = direct ancestor or parellel species to our current homo sapiens.Hominoid = "manlike species" but not suspected as being a direct ancestorAustralopithicus Africanus....partial small manlike hominoid found on one of Leakey's expeditions in Olduvai Gorge, Kenya as I recall.Cataclysmic Cosmic events....meteor/comet impacts, along with near misses to the earth from other planets or moons within the solar system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites