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Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?
Mind & Matter 'blog (WSJ) ^ | Saturday, February 4, 2012 | Matt Ridley

Posted on 02/05/2012 5:09:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?

1 posted on 02/05/2012 5:09:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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"For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see." (Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, p 23-24)

2 posted on 02/05/2012 5:10:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Good, someone else not watching the Superbowl. Interesting article.


3 posted on 02/05/2012 5:13:25 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Inyo-Mono

No reception.


4 posted on 02/05/2012 5:14:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
[singing] new math! new-hu-hu math! It won't do you a bit of good to review math...

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


5 posted on 02/05/2012 5:14:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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Erectus Ahoy (Stone Age Voyages)
Science News | 10-22-2003 | Bruce Bower
Posted on 10/22/2003 12:28:49 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1006058/posts

Hobbit remains found in Australia
Reuters | Wed, Oct 27, 2004 | Patricia Reaney
Posted on 10/27/2004 10:51:55 AM PDT by presidio9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1258944/posts

More bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered
Reuters | October 11, 2005 | By Patricia Reaney
Posted on 10/11/2005 8:34:12 AM PDT by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1500507/posts

Hobbits May Be Earliest Australians
The Australian | 12-8-2005 | Carmelo Amalfi/Leigh Dayton
Posted on 12/07/2005 3:01:40 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1535978/posts

Did The Flores Hobbit Have A Root Canal?
Scientific American | 4-18-2008 | Kate Wong
Posted on 04/20/2008 7:35:51 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2004560/posts

Hobbit’s relatives may have existed in northern Australia
Top News India | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | Sahil Nagpal
Posted on 05/28/2008 9:43:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2022496/posts

First Australians did not boost fire activity
PhysOrg | Monday, December 6, 2010 | Bob Beale
Posted on 12/08/2010 7:23:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2639347/posts


6 posted on 02/05/2012 5:20:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: blam

First Mariners
Archaeology | Volume 51 Number 3 May/June 1998 | Mark Rose
Posted on 09/25/2004 12:44:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1226673/posts


7 posted on 02/05/2012 5:24:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: SunkenCiv
The big man on little stick theory was scientifically proven possible on an early episode of gilligan's island.


8 posted on 02/05/2012 5:26:50 PM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: Inyo-Mono
I'm watching the Superbowl but not Madonna. It is an interesting article. I will catch up with it after the game.
9 posted on 02/05/2012 5:27:29 PM PST by wmileo
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To: SunkenCiv
Hobbit’s relatives may have existed in northern Australia

Even today, there are reports of "hairy wild men" being seen in Australia. So maybe they are still there.

10 posted on 02/05/2012 5:27:29 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: SunkenCiv
the volcanic eruption of (put in your fave) prolonged droughts that might have come close to wiping out many human populations.

All I know is I am glad some of my ancestors survived long enough to mutate.

11 posted on 02/05/2012 5:35:12 PM PST by bigheadfred (bazinga)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Charlie don’t surf!”


12 posted on 02/05/2012 5:37:11 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

Crikey.


13 posted on 02/05/2012 5:38:27 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("We will not comply.")
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To: SunkenCiv

“Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?”

no, they walked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDm6oxJVSg


14 posted on 02/05/2012 5:49:48 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: SunkenCiv

15 posted on 02/05/2012 5:50:33 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SunkenCiv; blam

Bushmen from the Khomani San community strike poses in the Southern Kalahari desert, South Africa Photo: GETTY

blam, anything on the Bushmen (San people) DNA?

16 posted on 02/05/2012 6:07:03 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why not? There was that Norweign guy who sailed around the Pacific on a raft named the Kon-Tiki.


17 posted on 02/05/2012 6:14:58 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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KON TIKI

The Kon-Tiki left Callao, Peru, on the afternoon of April 28, 1947. It was initially towed 50 miles out to open water by the Fleet Tug Guardian Rios of the Peruvian Navy. The ship then sailed roughly west carried along on the Humboldt Current.

18 posted on 02/05/2012 6:32:14 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Couldn’t have; there weren’t any Waves for sailors to ride before WWII.

Other than that minor detail, interesting article.


19 posted on 02/05/2012 6:51:43 PM PST by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"For a long time, scientists had assumed…"
Isn't this how all scientifik articles begin?
The community amuses me. What is fact today is tomorrows laugh.
20 posted on 02/05/2012 7:43:12 PM PST by bksanders (Old Gets Older the Older I Get)
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