[blam]

"If you're looking at the Southeast Asia hominids it does look, to the very casual eye, and indeed to the very specialized eye, when Wolpoff and his colleagues get going, that there are some local features that you see in Homo Erectus that seem to be carried through into Homo Sapiens. "

The 'Out Of Africa (Eve)" folks have a problem defining the features and atributes of Modern Humans.

If it is assumed that everyone alive today is a Modern Human and if you measure all the features of everyone on earth, then that 'range' of measurements would include, Homo Erectus, Neanderthals and even some more archaic folks. The features of the Australian Aborigines, in some cases, are even more archaic than the Neanderthals. I think Wolpoff and the Multiregional theory will eventually prevail.

The 200-120k yo skeleton that was found in South Africa that defines 'modern' or the 'out of Africa' theory has a problem. True, it has some modern features but so do skeletons of the same period in Asia...they just have different modern features.

Then, there are the 'Hobbits' and the 80,000 year old 'well worn' shell necklaces found with their remains. Ostrich egg shell necklaces were one of the things used to conclude that the 100-120k yo skeleton in Africa was modern.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the ping, blam; and a ping to thefactor.

We always knew Milton was right (as was Carleton Coon).