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To: CobaltBlue
"Mankind may have evolved independently in several locations, but the DNA doesn't lie - if there was independent evolution, there was also convergence. So you've got to come with a theory that fits the evidence."

I was watching a documentary about the Super Volcano Toba and they explained that as few as 2,000 people worldwide survived the explosion 75,000 years ago.
Now, it wasn't a week later while watching another documentary that I saw a female archaeologist excavating a human site in Indonesia that was just above the volcano ash layer...to soon for another group to walk from Africa.

I understand that these people could have (somehow) gone extinct...But, I don't think so. Something is going on with the DNA that we don't understand....and then, there's Mungo Man in Australia.

73 posted on 02/02/2004 12:07:04 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
The most recent research I am aware of on Mungo Man shows that he's only about 40,000 years old, which certainly gave him time to have migrated from Africa.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=143&art_id=qw1045634408844B223&set_id=1
74 posted on 02/02/2004 12:16:27 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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