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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: Two articles about human evolution (+ map) |
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Humans have spread globally, and evolved locally
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Historians often assume that they need pay no attention to human evolution because the process ground to a halt in the distant past. That assumption is looking less and less secure in light of new findings based on decoding human DNA.
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Human family tree has become a bush with many branches
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Time was, fossils and a few stone artifacts were about the only means scientists had of tracing the lines of early human evolution. And gaps in such material evidence were frustratingly wide.
When molecular biologists joined the investigation some 30 years ago, their techniques of genetic analysis yielded striking insights. DNA studies pointed to a common maternal ancestor of all anatomically modern humans in Africa by at least 130,000 years. She inevitably became known as the African Eve.
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, there you go, cultural supremists: Proof of the superiority of white people. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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just alittlecrazy
Joined: 30 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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have you just discovered steve wright? |
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