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Evolution acting upon human genes for skin color, hair type, nose type, body type, lactose tolerance, malaria resistance, etc, etc.

And as another poster pointed out, the Chinese want to be first at everything. Australopithocine did exist in Africa for millions of years, and some may well have moved to China, but that doesn't necessitate that the Chinese australopithocine is the ancestor of modern man.

[allmendream]

Ahem, all this talk of a “Chinese Lucy” got me confused. It was a homo sapiens jaw from 110,000 years ago, not an australopithocine from a few million years ago.

Even LESS evidence that modern humans evolved out of Asia than if it were clearly an ancestral species to homo sapiens rather than just a very old homo sapiens.