Human quadrupeds discovered in Turkey

Found this article about a family of FREAKS! :confused: No offense to anyone on here who walks on all fours normally. LOL

LONDON (AFP) - The discovery of a Turkish family that walks on all fours could aid research into the evolution of humans.

Researchers believe the five brothers and sisters, who can walk naturally only on all fours, may provide new information on how humans evolved from four-legged hominids to walk upright.

Nicholas Humphrey, evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, told The Times the discovery opened “an extraordinary window on our past”.

“I do not think they were designed to be quadrupeds by their genes, but their unique genetic make-up allowed them to be,” he said.

“It has produced an extraordinary window on our past. It is physically possible, which noone would have guessed from the [modern] human skeleton.”

The siblings, the subject of a new BBC documentary to be aired on March 17, suffer from a genetic abnormality that may prevent them from walking upright.

Instead, they use their palms like heels with their fingers sticking up from the ground.

The BBC said the documentary would contribute to fierce scientific debate and raised profound questions about what it is to be human.

Humphrey, who has contributed to the documentary, believes the style of walking may be a throwback to a form of behaviour abandoned by humans more than three million years ago.

Two sisters and one son have only ever walked on two hands and two feet, while another daughter and son occasionally walk on two feet.

All five are mentally retarded and have problems with language as a result of a form of underdevelopment of the brain known as cerebellar ataxia.

However Humphrey told the Times their behaviour may be partly the result of their parents tolerating the behaviour in childhood.

They are aged between 18 and 34 and live in southern Turkey, athough the makers of the documentary have not disclosed their exact location.

“They walk like animals and that’s very disturbing at first. But we were also very moved by this family’s tremendous warmth and humanity,” Jemima Harrison of Passionate Productions told the Times.

Pics or Ban. :tup:

the market for hand creams must be huge…

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Haha it would be even better if they were knuckle draggers…

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,275596,00.jpg
:bsflag:I’m gonna have to raise the flag on this one. That story has got to either be a fake or blown waaaaay the fu(k out of proportion. It’s just some retards spider walking, not a window into human evolution. I can do the same thing that they do!

it says that they can NOT walk any other way…probably just a genetic spinal problem, mal nutrition, bad posture growing up…

it most certainly is not human evolution…

human evolution i think will not see much physical change in the next million years, but mental is my prediction…they say we only use something like 10% of our brain’s capacity to perform tasks, and much of the other 905 they still dont even know what it is capable of doing…

in a million years, we’ll be able to kill a yack from a 100 yards away…WITH MIND BULLETS! THAT’S telekenesis (sp?) kyle!

clicky the linky, the 2nd one.

HOAX

that would suck to walk around like that all the time. the blood would rush to your head, screw that. i’d stray away from the norm and walk normal.

:bsflag: I don’t believe in evolution anyways…not to turn this into a debate…I believe in creation.

someone should just go over there, mushroom stamp them and yell at them “Stand up mother fuckers! You are humans, not dogs!”

LMAO @ the pics…how did they get their shirts on if they can’t stand?

sit?

I think that is my X-mother-in-law’s family :biglaugh:

:poof: humans…oh yeah that makes a lot of sense

yup i love the stories my parents used to tell me when i was younger about how my great great great great great great great great great grandfather used to be a professional brontosaurus rider :tup:

what came first, the chicken or the egg? doesnt make alot of sense either

duh the chicken, no wait the egg. It was the egg.

lol just for sake of argument

heir mother and father, who are themselves closely related, are believed to have passed down a unique combination of genes resulting in the behaviour

that sums it up.

insert turkish accent. =>“oh boy my sisters hott.”