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I agree with your thoughts on the 'daughters.' But, I also believe there have been exiled/isolated groups throughout human history. These groups become isolated (Do some minor changing), come back together, mingle for thousand of years and then are isolated in different groups again. (Repeat the process for 100's of thousand of years). I think that Europe was the meeting place/mixing pot for these groups. If you pick Europe as a center point, then move away in all directions, at the extreme edges (Africa/Australia) are the most primitive societies. The European arena seems to have been able to adapt/adopt the best features from all these other cultures and evolve into the highly civilized cultures we see there today.

From what I've read, referring to language origins and development, language origins can be traced back to the Anatolian region (eastern Turkey).

If these 'people' were modern humans, they had to have been able to speak. Languages seem to be a much more accurate way to trace geopgaphic origins than by using a remarkably few skulls - or more accurately, skull fragments, ie: a few teeth and a piece of jawbone - to reconstruct an entire society of humanlike sub-species.

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!

Do not confuse today's cultures with evidence of ancient occupancy by modern humans. The modern guys moved in about 30,000 years ago, but when culture and civilization was developed, the fellows in North Africa and Egypt were first! On the other hand, the first towns and some serious advances in agriculture happened in Ukraine and Bulgaria.