To: Light Speed
If the Homo Sapien skull from China is this advanced..it would also reveal a strong DNA mapping.The article doesn't say, but I suspect that there isn't any DNA left in this find. Typically, bone that is buried becomes a fossil by mineral replacement of the original structure. (Some of the most beautiful fossils I have seen were opalized - that is, silica-rich groundwaters percolated through the sediments and replaced the original calcium with opal) The best we can probably hope for is age-dating the fossils and the sediments in which they were found.
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01/05/2003 12:03:01 AM PST by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman
Yes you are correct on your comment concerning DNA....
poor wording choice on my part.
From my perspective..if the skull is like ours..and is near the time window they are forwarding...and unless man had some problem procreating...human population numerics would be much like ours...hence mankind would have probably been into the habitation phase much earlier than the 15,000 yr window which we are discovering today.
I suspect catastrophism to be the prime mover in keeping population numbers down..and driving man into migrations.
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