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[blam]

I'm in the Milford Wolpoff and Loring Brace camp, I believe in the MRE theory. I think they will ultimately be proven correct.

[muawiyah]

Somehow we have all gotten into the habit of thinking of human populations wondering around in groups and thereby forming isolated genetic pools. Both of the hypotheses discussed above assume this.

However, it is the ancient practice of humanity to "trade daughters" among and between tribes.

Then there's always the "wondering male hunting party" - no doubt it has an effect. But it's still the female side that is relocated from one group to another. Over time gene combinations that first appeared in Siberia ended up in Kenya. No one had to travel the distance. All they had to do was trade daughters from one tribe to another, whether as captives or wives, or maybe as just "good friends", and next thing you know "Eve" is in Kenya.

Our supposed "nearest simian relatives", the chimps, are also reported to trade the girls.

[blam]

Bump for you.

[SunkenCiv]

Another three year old topic, never previously added to GGG, for which I'm pinging the list. Hey, I'm doing this in reverse alpha so they'll show up in alpha order in your comments page...

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[Cooltouch]

I researched this whole argument extensively as preparation for my Masters thesis regarding the origins of language in hominids. I can argue this point AT LENGTH -- in fact, at such a length that you will just want me to go away, OKAY?

But I would just like to state that Wolpoff has been thoroughly discredited amongst his peer community, and that there is nothing new about this. Wolpoff has been getting discredited for the past couple of decades, yet he persists. Ain't tenure wonderful?

[SunkenCiv]