On Feb 18, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Bob W wrote:
Right. The paper questioning the out of Africa premise was
published within the last month or so. If I recall
correctly, it was published in Nature, a properly
peer-reviewed journal of high integrity. I can probably find
the reference if you care.
Yes, please. I'd be interested to see that.
Thanks,
Bob
It may take me a while digging through e-mails to find the one that
brought this to my attention. Meanwhile, here are some of my
bookmarks on this subject that may prove interesting:
http://www.crystalinks.com/africacreation.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050516/firsthuman.html
http://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/not-out.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2002/07/0703_020704_georgianskull.html
FWIW, I have always thought that the out of Africa theory was a house
of cards built on quicksand. I had a spirited argument about this
with Loius Leakey back in the 70s. Leakey wanted his own discoveries
to be the beginnings of man far too much, in my opinion. I don't
think he was objective about it.
Bob
