Re: Modern man did not domesticate Fido

Thom Quinn (swo@execpc.com)
Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:50:19 -0500

The Oldest fossil of anatomically modern man are from 92,000. The
difference is 40,000---but, we do not think, boom, 92,000 modern man
came out of nowhere. In fact, modern looking people could be much older
and we have just not found the fossils. Homo has been extrememly complex
for the past 200,000 years.

Thom
>
> There is a report by Robert Wayne in tomorrow's issue of Science which
> indicates that the dog may have been first domesticated and thus split from
> the wolf 135,000 years ago although the date has a wide range of error.
> Should this work hold up, it would mean that someone other than anatomically
> modern man made the first steps toward domestication of the dog.
>
> glenn
>
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm