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2005-08-23 Europe

Major Anthropological Discovery In European Georgia

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Orthodoxy is all. When a 'concept' takes hold within a community, the amount of energy spent protecting that concept eventually morphs into a stone wall. We are stuck with the 'Out of Africa' theory for generations because of PC and the laziness of tenured professors to do real science. You will see the establishment keep pushing back what is 'human' as older and older bones are found outside the Rift Valley. If you look in one place, you'll only find in one place. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and some opening up of Central Asia, I suspect you are in for some interesting 'new' finds. However, watch as the establishment fights to discredit every piece of evidence that does not conform to its vision of the world, and unfortunately, one that is anchored upon PC doctrine not science.

Posted by Whineck Cleremp7490 2005-08-23 09:09|| 2005-08-23 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 The find doesn't disprove "Out of Africa"; it just shifts the date back a bit.

(But the Clovis First theory was drowned like a sack of kittens earlier this year.)

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-23 09:11|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The Out of Africa theory is largely a result of mathmatical ignorance. Each one of us had a nominal several hundred million ancestors 80K years ago. Since the number of actual humans at that time was far fewer, statistically we all share the same pool of ancestors starting considerably more recent than that and of course going all they way back to the first organism that swan through the primeval soup. There were people in Africa at that time and people at an unknown other number of places. We are decended from all of them (assuming a population was not completely isolated).

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-23 21:22|| 2005-08-23 21:22|| Front Page Top

#4 There are lots of odd twists and turns to genetics. For example, the only way to trace back that far is through mothers' mitochondrial RNA, which has been described as a "more primitive" precurser to DNA, now retained primarily as a cellular engine, instead of a blueprint like DNA. DNA is far more complex, but also terribly prone to error, transmitted fault, and mutation. It also might be not uncommon for humans to "swap" DNA with animals and even plants. In addition, some people may have DNA "repair" mechanisms that fix DNA deviations from the other parent to the offspring--keeping the species' genes from too much incremental degeneration. Interestingly enough, because humans no longer have to compete to survive in harsh nature, we have large amounts of defective genes that would have otherwise been purged--far more than most common mammals. Over time, this may accellerate our breaking apart into separate species.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-23 21:44|| 2005-08-23 21:44|| Front Page Top

#5 bet he was robbed and killed by a Chechen

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-23 21:47|| 2005-08-23 21:47|| Front Page Top

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