# Human quadrupeds discovered in Turkey **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991 "2006-03-07T08:51:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JezikaTee1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@JezikaTee1983](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JezikaTee1983)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/1 "2006-03-07T08:51:31Z")
Found this article about a family of FREAKS! 😕 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/2 "2006-03-07T09:11:36Z")
Pics or Ban. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![JezikaTee1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@JezikaTee1983](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JezikaTee1983)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/3 "2006-03-07T09:13:27Z")
> **[The Times & The Sunday Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/)** > > News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times ---
**Author:** ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/4 "2006-03-07T09:14:22Z")
the market for hand creams must be huge… ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/5 "2006-03-07T09:19:57Z")
:word::needpic: Haha it would be even better if they were knuckle draggers… ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/6 "2006-03-07T09:21:56Z")
![http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,275596,00.jpg](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! ---
**Author:** ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/7 "2006-03-07T09:25:20Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![JezikaTee1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@JezikaTee1983](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JezikaTee1983)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/8 "2006-03-07T09:25:46Z")
> [@BikerFry](#): > > :word::needpic: > > Haha it would be even better if they were knuckle draggers… clicky the linky, the 2nd one. ---
**Author:** ![AKA-FERRARI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/aka-ferrari/32/7260_2.png) [@AKA-FERRARI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AKA-FERRARI)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/9 "2006-03-07T09:47:35Z")
HOAX ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Karus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mrs_karus/32/7426_2.png) [@Mrs\_Karus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mrs_Karus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/10 "2006-03-07T10:28:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/11 "2006-03-07T10:33:27Z")
:bsflag: I don’t believe in evolution anyways…not to turn this into a debate…I believe in creation. ---
**Author:** ![AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/12 "2006-03-07T10:34:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/13 "2006-03-07T10:36:10Z")
sit? ---
**Author:** ![ugo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ugo/32/7430_2.png) [@ugo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ugo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/14 "2006-03-07T10:39:05Z")
I think that is my X-mother-in-law’s family :biglaugh: ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/15 "2006-03-07T10:43:52Z")
> [@JEG](#): > > :bsflag: I don’t believe in evolution anyways…not to turn this into a debate…I believe in creation. :poof: humans…oh yeah that makes a lot of sense ---
**Author:** ![jeeves744](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeeves744/32/7619_2.png) [@jeeves744](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jeeves744)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/16 "2006-03-07T10:44:25Z")
> [@JEG](#): > > :bsflag: I don’t believe in evolution anyways…not to turn this into a debate…I believe in creation. 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: ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/17 "2006-03-07T10:45:14Z")
> [@JoesTypeS](#): > > :poof: humans…oh yeah that makes a lot of sense what came first, the chicken or the egg? doesnt make alot of sense either ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Karus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mrs_karus/32/7426_2.png) [@Mrs\_Karus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mrs_Karus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/18 "2006-03-07T10:46:40Z")
> [@SC\_Steve](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/19 "2006-03-07T10:49:04Z")
lol just for sake of argument ---
**Author:** ![RedrRocket](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrrocket/32/7193_2.png) [@RedrRocket](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedrRocket)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991/20 "2006-03-07T10:53:24Z")
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.” [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/human-quadrupeds-discovered-in-turkey/8991.md?page=2)