New Evidence for Multiregional Origins

Anthropology ^ | Alec Christensen

[Nebullis]

Thanks. And a crevo list bump.

[XBob]

In the Philippines they have an indiginous group of people called the Negritos, who are Negroid, quite tiny - 4 feet tops mostly, dark brown skin, kinky hair, who have lived there since time immemorial. They seem to be like African pignmys, though I am no expert.

[XBob]

According to Mario Pei, the roots of English, an indo-european language, originated in the vicinity of Iran, about 2500 bc.

[RightWhale]

Over the past million years about a foot of meteorite dust has covered the earth, land and sea alike, and then too a lot of native dust has settled in with that. We might be in for quite a surprise if we were to excavate the entire planet to a depth of just a few feet. There could be whole cities down there, and more than an attache case full of old bones.

[Junior]

Archaeological discoveries in the 1960s, however, suggest the prehistoric Kurgan culture. Located in the steppes west of the Ural Mountains between 5000 and 3000 BC, this culture had diffused as far as eastern Europe and northern Iran by about 2000 BC.

The Highlander's (im)mortal enemy was a kurgan...

[Wm Bach]

I think what this article is trying to avoid, and not very well, is that if someone is to believe in MRE they MUST, by definition, believe that not ALL humans are equally evolved. There is no practical way to avoid coming to the conclusion, that if we did not all spring from one evolutionary root, then some of us are more or less evolved than others.

The truth hurts, IF you are an evolutionist!

The only problem is that non-evolutionists always confuse "more-evolved" with "better". Suppose it can be demonstrated through mtDNA that a typical Eskimo is more "evolved" than a typical Ethiopian. Only an idiot would conclude that an Eskimo is "better" than an Ethiopian when placed side-by-side, away from either one's natural habitat - say, in New Jersey. The Ethiopian is superior to the Eskimo in dealing with the dry North African climate, and the Eskimo is clearly superior in dealing with the Arctic chill.

Evolved/Better...don't confuse the two, and don't forget Environmental Context - in evolutionary circles, it's the main point.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cooltouch]

I researched this whole argument extensively as preparation for my Masters thesis regarding the origins of language in hominids. I can argue this point AT LENGTH -- in fact, at such a length that you will just want me to go away, OKAY?

But I would just like to state that Wolpoff has been thoroughly discredited amongst his peer community, and that there is nothing new about this. Wolpoff has been getting discredited for the past couple of decades, yet he persists. Ain't tenure wonderful?

[Varda]

The books I've read on the subject suggest that the genetic evidence is overwhelming for OOA and morphology is proving to be weaker evidence than claimed, the Lagar Velho 1 child has been identified as modern human.

Unless Wolpoff et al have something stronger, it seems they're spitting into the wind.

[ckilmer]

dang blam

you cut off the article you posted just as they were about to post the words with the commen meaning and pronunciation that date to early iron age in the indo european language.

please post the url for that so I can read the rest of the story.

my guess for proto european words? "cat" and "hat" but not "the" "came" or "back"

[blam]

"please post the url for that so I can read the rest of the story."

Sorry, I don't know where I got this from.

[SunkenCiv]

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Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction by Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari	Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction by Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari

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