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To: Red Badger; Sacajaweau
An extremely thought provoking article and irrespective of one's take on it, deserves care in evaluation. I am a little suspicious of the usage of non-African as a term however. Perhaps I am spooked by so much political correctness that pollutes academia.

Had any anthropologist used the name Neanderthal, as an African characteristic they would have been ostracized and demonized. One is not supposed to attribute anything but a sort of Harry Belafonte, Sydney Portier Hollywood image of the black people. I should include the lovely Halle Berry.

The isolation of the Haplo Group or Haplotype only recently, enables entrepeneurs to trace one's nomadic ancestors. They get a swab from inside the cheek and then purport by a series of coloured dots trace one's long line of wandering.

Somehow Wikipedia does not tell me of the eminent anthopologist who was hooted and jeered at by college students in the 1960's. I do not want to be paranoid, but it seems to have vanished, that information. After thirty years of research, he just happened to think that the four groups of homo sapiens evolved in four different areas of the universe,

All he had to have said, was that the four groups that he had so carefully studied, all came from our old girl friend Lucy in Africa. Still, lots of interest here. We have learnt that Neanderthal looked after the aged and infirm (so it is said). One up for that species!

54 posted on 07/19/2011 9:51:25 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra

The only way to defeat Political Correctness/Newspeak is to hit it straight on and punch it in the nose................


66 posted on 07/19/2011 10:26:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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