Posted on 05/23/2015 12:17:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
"We looked at the basic timeline revealed by similar stone points, and it shows that humans were using them in Europe before they appeared in the Levant - the opposite of what we'd expect if the innovation had led to the humans' migration from Africa to Europe," said Dr. Kadowaki.
"Our new findings mean that the research community now needs to reconsider the assumption that our ancestors moved to Europe and succeeded where Neanderthals failed because of cultural and technological innovations brought from Africa or west Asia."
By re-examining the evidence, the researchers showed that the comparable stone weapons appeared in Europe around 42,000 years ago, and in the Levant 39,000 years ago. They believe the timings imply several new scenarios about the migration of modern humans into Europe. For example, they are likely to have migrated to Europe much earlier, and developed the tools there.
"We're very excited about our new model. We think the causes of human evolution are more complicated than just being about technology. Now that we've re-examined the traditional model about the northern migration route to Europe, we are planning to re-evaluate the model on the southern migration route - from East Africa to South Asia" said Dr. Kadowaki.
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PS ... yeah ... if DASH didn’t sound so ordinary ... I’d go for it
really? neanderthals died out, regardless of how little of their genetic code survived in other species.
What you said there? It made no sense.
There are morphological differences between someone living today and the fossil remains of people who used to live; among people with European ancestry, Neandertal morphology has persisted, and isn't found among other living groups. Genetic sequences from the Neandertal are likewise found in living people of European ancestry, and not elsewhere; this mitigates against either the genes or the morphology from having been in the much older, common ancestors.
The notion that Neandertal is somehow inferior seems to have originated with Virchow, who really circled the drain, until he went over the lip into the pipe by claiming the Neandertal remains were just those of 18th c Cossacks with rickets who'd died naked in a cave after fleeing from a battle where they'd been defeated (they stripped off their uniforms, which were their only clothing, then died of exposure).
The racial-supremacist Replacement Model requires that Africa is the only origin of all living people, and grows out of Chuck Darwin's pretty tales.
The Levant is a pretty common term.
There is no ISIL or ISIS or Daesh - there is the Islamic State.
By definition they are NOT Homo sapiens.
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