Ancient skull dug up in Henan may bury 'Out of Africa' theory

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) ^ | Jan 24, 2008

[SunkenCiv]

Saw that earlier. Hey, aren’t you supposed to be takin’ a nap? ;’) Dream of multiregionalism.

[N. Theknow]

Ancient skull dug up in Henan may bury 'Out of Africa' theory

The theory takes it on the Chin?

Certainly gives a different slant to it at any rate.

[SunkenCiv]

Some chop will sue ye over yon jokes.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

From the source ‘They believe that most of the people living in China and East Asia are descendants of a native lineage whose consistent, uninterrupted evolution can be traced back millions of years.’

If the Chinese have been a separate evolutionary line for ‘millions of years’, wouldn’t that imply that they are a different species, even a different genus, and therefore unable to breed with Europeans? That certainly isn’t the case!

[SunkenCiv]

Not necessarily.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"It's just been discovered," said Liu Wu , director at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology. "We guess it could lead to some important evidence. But so far it is mostly a guess."

Wu Who? True, Liu. Anything beyond a guess would be a bonehead move if the Scientific Method is applied, by definition.