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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of Jonathan Clarke
>Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:36 PM
>Cc: Asa@Calvin. Edu
>Subject: Re: Mungo man, mtDNA and Neanderthals.
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>Just some background on Alan Thorne (who is from a research school
>on the other
>side of the campus). He is a strong advocate of the antiquity of racial
>differentiation, that broad regional differences in human anatomy
>can be traced
>back from modern H. sapiens to H. erectus. for example, he argues
>that modern
>Chinese share many anatomical characteristics of H. erectus from
>China. He is
>thus a long standing opponent of the idea that H. sapiens has a
>common origin
>"out of Africa". In no way is he arguing that some modern races are more
>primitive than others. At least, that is if I understand him correctly.
>
>Respectfully
>
>Jon
>
There is a small correction to the above. Thorne has been an opponent of a
RECENT origin for modern man in Africa. All anthropologists that I know of
beleive in the origin of man in Africa--the question is merely WHEN. Thorne
and many others believes that gene flow around the world has been such as to
maintain a single species over the world for humanity over the past 2
million years, just as gene flow among dogs/wolves throughout the world has
maintained them as a common species which can interbreed. However, no one
doubts that humanities ultimate origin was in AFrica. He is among those who
want to lump all hominids for the past 2 million years into the genus H.
sapiens. I posted on this a couple of years ago. Others who hold this view
are Richard Leakey, Wolpolf, Jan Jelinek etc.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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