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Potential Origins of Europeans Found
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| November 10, 2005
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Posted on 11/11/2005 1:09:32 AM PST by AlaskaErik
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To: Alter Kaker
Do you think it's an accident that the earliest Homo remains all come from a small band in South and East Africa? Wouldn't the extensive glaciation in the last ice age have destroyed any fossilized remains of pre-ice-age humans in any area north of 40° latitude if they existed?
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posted on
11/11/2005 10:06:48 AM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: wildbill
An even more astounding fact is that there is a keyboard alternative to the standard Querty keyboard (circa 1870)that is easier to learn and to use. It would make nearly everyone a faster typist. But is it taught? NOOOOOOOO. Because everyone still has the old keyboard and it's considered too difficult to switch over. You could say the same thing about the metric system.
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posted on
11/11/2005 10:08:05 AM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: JCEccles
The evidence that language is the result of not merely intelligent agents, but agents with exceptionally large brains, is not only self-apparent, it is overwhelming.Just kinda playing Devil's Advocate here, but are you saying that the PC Nazi's that have been successfully changing our language have exceptionally larger brains?
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posted on
11/11/2005 10:47:40 AM PST
by
BostonianRightist
(Justice: A Dish Best Served Swiftly)
To: ElkGroveDan
I hate it when I come upon the scene late and the trolls' posts have been pulled. Me too. No body visible after the massacre, only a few blood spots.
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posted on
11/11/2005 11:13:50 AM PST
by
Max in Utah
(By their works you shall know them.)
To: FreedomCalls
Wouldn't the extensive glaciation in the last ice age have destroyed any fossilized remains of pre-ice-age humans in any area north of 40° latitude if they existed?No. There are plenty of non-human fossils.
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posted on
11/11/2005 11:37:14 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: wildbill
"An even more astounding fact is that there is a keyboard alternative to the standard Querty keyboard (circa 1870)that is easier to learn and to use. It would make nearly everyone a faster typist." Texas Instruments produced an early home computer with the new keyboard, they lost their butts and never recovered when they changed to the qwerty keyboard.
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posted on
11/11/2005 11:53:43 AM PST
by
blam
To: iowamark
I'm just a rank amateur, just an observer of men, but I notice white people like me are called Caucasians. Further, I notice that people in places like Afghanistan, though muslim, may be blond, and some have blue eyes. I also notice that the people from the Hindus Valley (India, think Hindu, Hindus, Indus, India) are very dark skin, but their features look like mine.
So, I thought my people came from South Asia. Is this article refuting that? I couldn't really tell. They also seem to project a lot of things bassed on this so-called mitochondrial DNA. Is it accurate? Are they peeing on my leg and telling me it's raining?
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:01:14 PM PST
by
Great Caesars Ghost
(For Thee I Offered My Blood, In Sacrifice... Tarry No Longer... (Requiem, Davies, 1915))
To: thomaswest
Where did Latin come from?
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:01:50 PM PST
by
Great Caesars Ghost
(For Thee I Offered My Blood, In Sacrifice... Tarry No Longer... (Requiem, Davies, 1915))
To: JCEccles
If this weren't true, rocks would speak--and in local dialects. According to the Muzzies, they do! Rocks & Trees: "O Son of Islam, there is a jew hiding behind me, come and kill him."
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:03:51 PM PST
by
Great Caesars Ghost
(For Thee I Offered My Blood, In Sacrifice... Tarry No Longer... (Requiem, Davies, 1915))
To: CarrotAndStick
The ancient homeland appears to be not far from Mt Ararat. Not for the Basque, though.
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:06:17 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: thomaswest
Evolution of language is well-documented, showing modification over generations, selection based on surroundings, and nobody pretends it was "intelligently designed". Granting that most humans are anything but "intelligent" (crafty, sly, scheming, 'learned', cunning, etc; yes. Intelligent, not) you may be onto something. In that case, "like Topsy, it just grew."
OTOH, the few intelligent humans around would be the 'intelligence' behind the evolution of human language.
Back to square one in the argument. That is the square where everyone squares off at each other, rather than displaying intelligence.
AFAIK, language DEVOLVES, as the common people use & abuse it, reducing it to the simplest, crudest form possible to still communicate the barest modicum of everyday drivel.
For "proof" look at emails and SMS-speak, and listen to Liberal talking...
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:19:56 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: AlaskaErik
I've always thought URPeans decended from bees and wasps.. since they have a propensity for the hive.. you know, socialism..
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:20:17 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
To: Palisades
we are from here
From where?>/B> We are not from this planet, and evolution proves it.
If we had evolved here...
we would not get flat feet from the gravity
we would not be burned nor blinded by "our own" sun's rays
Our skin would not be so thin that cacti & goatshead thorns...Oh, never mind.
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:32:12 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: Netheron
You mean, the advantage of being actually and practically useful? Hmm... I dunno, do we have the support of the French on this?
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:37:38 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Bring Back HUAC!)
To: Mamzelle
Pancha means 5 in Sanskrit. Dva means two, tri means three, sapta seven. Off the top of my head.
Tumulo - tumultuous. Jugala - conjugal. (Y)Jauvana - youth (see juvenile in there?). Duhitr - daughter. Pita - father. Matra - mother. Go - cow. Raj - king (royal). Etcetcetc.
To: ApplegateRanch; CarrotAndStick
Have you read "Human Devolution" by any chance?
To: AlaskaErik
Maybe they were "guest farmers."
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:43:25 PM PST
by
B Knotts
To: FreedomCalls
Wouldn't the extensive glaciation in the last ice age have destroyed any fossilized remains Not at all. Glaciers scour the surface of the land but do not necessarily destroy buried fossils, especially fossils in caves.
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posted on
11/11/2005 1:01:33 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: FreedomCalls
An even more astounding fact is that there is a keyboard alternative to the standard Querty keyboard (circa 1870)that is easier to learn and to use. It would make nearly everyone a faster typist. But is it taught? NOOOOOOOO. Because everyone still has the old keyboard and it's considered too difficult to switch over. You could say the same thing about the metric system.
And quadraphonic stereo and beta video, and rotary engines, and Macintosh computers, and "New" Coke etc. etc. There will always be a product that the "smart people" all know to be "better" but the free market rejects. It's as predictable as the sunrise and I love it every time that happens.
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posted on
11/11/2005 1:09:09 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: little jeremiah
Have you read "Human Devolution" by any chance?I honestly don't recall, but wouldn't be surprised.
I DID read Pan Satyrus though.
That is about a chimp that is put into orbit. The satellite orbits 'the wrong direction' causing 'time to reverse' and devolving the chimp into a human, befor returning to earth.
The rest of the book is his quest, remembering what exalted heights he once held, to get reorbited and reevolved. It ends with him a happy chimp once again, returned to the jungle.
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posted on
11/11/2005 1:11:19 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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