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To: Inyo-Mono
The possibility that a very primitive member of the genus Homo left Africa, roughly two million years ago, and that a descendant population persisted until only several thousand years ago, is one of the more provocative hypotheses to have emerged in anthropology during the past few years," David Strait of the University of Albany told Scientific American recently. This view is backed by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum, London. "We are still grappling with what this discovery has done for our thinking and our conventional scenarios."

So maybe all those stories of little hairy people from remote areas all over the World may not be so far fetched after all.

8 posted on 02/23/2010 7:07:04 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

The family of man is bigger than we think, and sapiens was not the only intelligent species.


9 posted on 02/23/2010 7:15:18 PM PST by maro (One term is enough)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Little foots?


11 posted on 02/23/2010 8:08:41 PM PST by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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