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To: decimon
Nothing about humanoids but flora spreading via a northern land bridge might factor in to assumptions of human dispersal.

Not if you're talking 47 million years ago, you're not. Primates in the early Eocene resembled primitive lemurs and lorises, and weren't anything like our immediate ancestors.

4 posted on 10/17/2007 12:05:36 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
Primates in the early Eocene resembled primitive lemurs and lorises, and weren't anything like our immediate ancestors.

Except in one respect...they knew that cashews were DEEEE-LISH!
6 posted on 10/17/2007 12:08:13 PM PDT by this is my name not yours (Free speech is the escape valve that keeps some people from picking up a rifle.)
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To: Alter Kaker; muawiyah

I meant that plants may have spread on their own sooner rather than as human cargo later.


8 posted on 10/17/2007 12:37:43 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Alter Kaker
Ancestral cashews spread through Europe.

Female and minority lemurs and lorises suffered the most.

9 posted on 10/17/2007 12:39:43 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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