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Subject: Re: More Proto-World
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jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) writes:

>of God. Of course, since you urge us to put all joking aside,
>I cannot even poke fun at Cavalli-Sforza and Alan Wilson's
>calculations that there were exactly 14 females in the
>apish tribe whence we all spawned.

During the last century I think it was Kelvin so computed the
age of the earth to 5,000 years. Radition was still unknown
and he used convection and conduction in his heat loss
calculations.  There is always a problem at the extremes
of every theory. The problem is that we run into the
chicken-egg problem. There had to be first human! (so it looks)
so then where? The other ideas pushed around are even worse
than Cavalli-Sforza. The AFrican Eve was even funnier.

>You must subscribe toe "LINGUIST" if you have not done so.
>There has been a discussion there on the comparative that
>is slowing heating up.

I unsubscribed. It looks like all the interesting stuff was
waiting for me to unsubscribe :-)..

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
