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Thank you for the clarification; it helps. I agree with you that, when it comes to prediction, the task is hopeless. However, I was raising the question of analysis rather than that of prediction. Although there are many factors influencing the gene pool, the peoples who live in the same area for millennia are, for that same period of time, subject to largely the same factors. One has to observe similarities, and I did not see many emerging.

Rgards, TQ.

However, I was raising the question of analysis rather than that of prediction.

I think that the biggest problem with analysis is that we don't know much about what circumstances existed in pre-history. Six different anthropologists will give you 10 different answers. They each have their own point of view, and sometimes their own particular agenda. I find each of the theories interesting, but I don't hold to any one theory.

The most interesting theory I've come across is the idea that many varieties of humans existed at the same time. The Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthal may have been different races rather than different species. The current homo sapiens may be a blending of those races, rather than the winner of the battle between the two.