Hello Jerry and list! This is common knowledge, You can read all about this in the first half of a great book. That would be the Old Testament of the Holy Bible! You might want to pick up a copy if you don't already own one! It is a best seller! Thanks, Tom The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry A. Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:39 PM Subject: Re: Please Unsubcribe... [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ? etc., etc.,etc.
> Folks, > > Since we seem to have morphed off into anthropology, genealogy, sulking, > skulking, and Rosie > resigning from the list again, and heaven only knows what else to > follow, here's an item of > 'breaking news' that is both relevant and timely to our new 'off-topic' > subject. It's interesting, too. > > The following is the blurb from the newsstory: > > "New research suggests the human race was nearly wiped out 70,000 years > ago, when a crisis reduced > the population to about 2,000 people. The theory has reinvigorated the > debate on whether humans really > did come 'Out of Africa', or whether the species evolved in little > pockets around the globe." > > /Adapted from a report for ABC radio's 'PM' program./ > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s876996.htm > > In order to get back 'on topic', I'm now wondering whether or not the > homo sapiens' close brush with > extinction might have had anything to do with meteorites, asteroids, > meteoroids, comets, meteors, death > stars, and/or alien attacks. That should cover relevancy! > > 'Crawled out of the Odessa crater' Jerry (and may soon crawl back in) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> The most recent data I have seen shows in theory that ALL living > >> modern humans can trace their existence back to no more than 5 > >> individual females and no more that 30 individual males. > > > > > > > > Speculation from the really exotic all the way down to perfectly > > plausible scientific projections are a lot of fun to bat back and > > forth, but for all practical purposes, it seems to me that the > > primitive, boring procedure of tracing actual familial lines and > > figuring out who is demonstrably related to whom is hardly obsolete. > > Sure, we can all come from the same DNA source and we can all be > > related to each other if we try hard enough, through clever wordplay > > or speculative, slightly massaged (perhaps) science, just as > > meteorites COULD very well take forms other than those we currently > > recognize. Maybe there are meteorites that look just like ping-pong > > paddles and are made of brie cheese. But if we're just talking about > > practical, day-to-day genealogy rather than expansive theoretical > > canvasses, surely it's still more useful to base it in empirical > > evidence....rather like using meteoritical science to identify > > meteorites, rather than posing lots of cool-sounding but unanswerable > > possibilities. ;-) > > > > Gregory > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
