[blam]

Will someone please point out the new part to this theory?

[Pharmboy]

The new part is the date: they now have moved it back from approximately 150-200 thousand yars ago to 80,000! This is PC balderdash!

The Homo erectus of China (Peking Man) of 400,000 years ago had specific dental and cranial traits that are unique to present-day Asians.

Explain that, PC-liars.

Please click here.

[ThePoetsRaven]

I've got a bridge to sell ya.

[Sabertooth]

(((ping))))

[Godel]

"The fact that we look different is because we live in different environments," said Oppenheimer. "(But) we are really, truly the same under the skin."

By "we" does he mean all non-africans, or everyone.

[PISANO]

Great questions for geneticists and anthropologists but as for little ol me.........I don't really give a darn where I originated from. I am Sicilian, which means Arabs, Greeks and Ethiopians etc inhabited and spread their seed many hundreds of years ago. If they all came from Africa, good. I have no problem with it "ALL" starting in Africa or Sweeden or Pago Pago. Just don't see how it matters.

[bribriagain]

"(But) we are really, truly the same under the skin."

This gives me hope that I an all white team will one day win the NBA trophy. Not.

[JamesWilson]

Does this mean I can get a low-interest government loan as an African-American, or do I have to keep using the Native-American label?

[PistolPaknMama]

A ponder-later bump.

[capitan_refugio]

By the way, thanks for the ping.

Just by way of timing for the last Pleistocene glacial event, oxygen-16/oxygen-18 ratio studies from ice cores in Greenland and the antarctic tend to show a similar trend. The end of the last interglacial (warm period) came about 125,000 years before the present (b.p.). There was then a general cooling trend until about 100,000 years b.p. From 100,000 b.p. to 85,000 b.p. there was a slight "warming" but the raios still indicate a cool period. The ratios then drop off again and reach a minimum about 20,000 years ago. That point is generally considered to be the "height" of the last Ice Age. Since then there has been a steady warming trend. Today the oxygen isotope ratios are about what they were 125,000 years ago.

The melting of the North American and Asian ice sheets would readily explain the jump in eustatic sea level from the lows at 10,000 b.p. to the levels of 6,000 b.p. - which are near the levels of today.

I believe the evidence of from the oxygen isotope fluctuations and eustatic sea level change will certainly figure into the development of early human societies.

[Redcloak]

This sounds good to me. Now where's my piece of the reparations pie?!? I's OPPRESSED! My ancestor, Redcloak Kinte, was stolen away from our African homeland by... um... I guess that it would have been other Africans, BUT NO MATTER! I still deserve my payment!!

[wai-ming]

If the mitochondrial DNA story is correct, then we all descend from a woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago

I thought we evolved from a group of ape-like ancestors, who evolved from reptiles, who evolved from one cell organisms.
Now they're saying that one woman was responsible for it all? So our ancestry time line is like an hour glass: Millions of years of evolution produced this woman, who through her progeny produced millions of us. Fascinating.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It's on TV!

[xzins]

EVE

Hmmmmmm.

Must be an Adam out there somewhere?

[RWG]

OK, from now on, every government form I fill out I will check the African-American box.

[Ditter]

Not ME big boy! I'm frum Texas! (spoken with exaggerated TX accent) bump (hehe)

[white rose]

"My sense in it is that we're not close to the bottom line yet,"

For my money, this was the most intelligent statement in the entire article.

[fish hawk]

You are right,Blam, a woman scientist from the U.of Hawaii working in DNA came up with this information at least five years ago. It was called , I believe, the Eve project.

[Publius6961]

PC geneticists have no clue of statistics and higher math, yet they continue to insist on doing the "mitochondrial DNA" thing after consistently getting it wrong at least 3 times (so far).
The "original" woman can come from Africa or Iceland or Antarctica, for all I care, but this continuing answer in search of documenting evidence is getting beyond irritating.

[wotan]

we are really, truly the same under the skin

Is that why whites and blacks have much different ratios of slow twitch muscle fiber to quick twitch muscle fiber?

[Junior]

Bump.