Posted on 07/01/2006 4:12:22 PM PDT by blam
Roots of Human Family Tree Are Shallow
Roots of the Human Family Tree Are Remarkably Shallow - All Alive Today Share 1 Common Ancestor
By MATT CRENSON AP National Writer
Jul 1, 2006 (AP) Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He or she did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children and die.
Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today.
That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as recently as the reign of Tutankhamen, maybe even during the Golden Age of ancient Greece. There's even a chance that our last shared ancestor lived at the time of Christ.
"It's a mathematical certainty that that person existed," said Steve Olson, whose 2002 book "Mapping Human History" traces the history of the species since its origins in Africa more than 100,000 years ago.
It is human nature to wonder about our ancestors who they were, where they lived, what they were like. People trace their genealogy, collect antiques and visit historical sites hoping to capture just a glimpse of those who came before, to locate themselves in the sweep of history and position themselves in the web of human existence.
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The original civilized people in Mesopotamia spoke Sumerian. Many linguists have concluded Sumerian is a cognate language to one of the original Dravidian languages.
It's noteworthy that a linguist at Indiana University has managed to link Sumerian to Sa'ami (Laplander languages), another ancient written language in China, and an American Indian language still spoken in California in historic times.
The transfer of people hither and yon has undoubtedly been enormous.
Sounds like something I read in a Good Book.
Obviously you realize that is where I got it from!
I've read Jared's books but I'm not a big fan, he's to damn PC, etc for me. I do like his ideas about continental alignment though...I should have thought of that, lol.
I liked that book:
"For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. "
No that was JimRob and the rest of the mods. I'm not sure why he left me. Perhaps as an archeological curiousity. ;-)
You know, there is tendency among some to throw the term "billions of years ago" around like a Circus Clown might throw candle pins.
Biology, microbial and else, has not fundamentally changed in the last few billions of years.
You all ought to see yourselves, from a perspective that does not require you to be prone and facing the place commonly known as Mecca, or perhaps elsewhere! Ultimately, it is all the same thing. A rose by any other name is still a rose.
Well, call me a reactionary, and I'll call you what you truly are. Supporters of a faith with no real evidence to support it.
I'm learning about Diamond.
He is popular in the local universities.
The Amazon reviews were brutal (what I read) but the critics are also nutjobs. Some of them anyhow.
There are simply not enough hours in a day for me.
You do great stuff out here.
You and Sunk Civ are the light of the world, well sort of.......
I'm sure you know what I really mean.
Just thanks!
Thanks. Someboby has to do it, lol.
Many thanks. Diamond seems to be a curmudgeon, isn't out to please anyone, although as Blam noted, a little too peecee.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659081/posts?page=126#126
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=1565
I really do not have the time to always look at your posted stuff.
When I do find time, I am always impressed.
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
BTW, there were several different large Jewish populations in the Middle Ages. One was in Spain. Another was in Egypt. Yet another was in Baghdad (and earlier in Babylon).
Early and forever it seems from here.
Do you know why it is easier to treat Prokaryotic invasions than it is the to treat Eukaryotic invasions?
sounds like a vindication of Young Earth Creation to me.
I'm a chemist working in gene therapy, not much of a biochemist and most certainly not a MD. Your question falls outside of my area of expertise, but I know people whom to ask.
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