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From: rte@anchor.ho.att.com (R.EDWARDS(HOY002)1305)
Subject: Re: More Proto-World
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In article <hubey.782882530@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>
>>One more example of the power of Guy's Laws.  Recall that
>
>
>All joking aside, do you believe that humankind came from a single
>source, say about 100,000-200,000 which is more or less the
>standard belief these days?
>

There are at least two standard views on the origin and diffusion
of homo sapiens sapiens.

1.  That modern humans evolved in Africa and diffused from there
displacing other more primitive forms (in exactly what ways
more primitive is not entirely clear).

2.  That modern characteristics diffused through the existing
populations of more primitive humans.  Some claim that racial
characteristics can be traced to the ancient populations of
Africa and Eurasia.

There is an article by S. J. Gould that discusses this in a recent NY
review of books.  (A review of two books about Neandertals.)

R. Edwards rte@anchor.att.com
>--
>						-- 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


