Thanks, Glenn, for bringing this to our attention, and for your comments.
Susan and I miss you.
--Chris
At 10:25 PM 01/09/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>There is a very fascinating, preliminary press report out tonight of some
>work done with Mungo man, an early anatomically modern human from Australia.
>In fact, there is absolutely no doubt that this fossil is an anatomically
>modern form--he is what anthropologists term 'gracile', meaning thinned
>boned like us. And earlier report of the morphology of this man said:
>"In the June Journal of Human Evolution Thorne and his colleagues report
>that the fossil, known as Lake Mungo 3, now looks to be some 60,000 years
>old--nearly twice as old as previously thought--and unlike the other early
>Australian remains (all of which date to less than 20,000 years ago), this
>one bears delicate, modern features. To Stringer, this gracile form
>indicates the arrival of modern humans from Africa, albeit an early one.
>Over time, he reasons, selection could have led to the robust morphology
>seen 40,000 years later."
>http://www.scientificamerican.com/1999/0899issue/0899infocus.html
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