Posted on 05/03/2009 11:46:07 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
LOCATIONS for the Garden of Eden have been offered many times before, but seldom in the inhospitable borderland of Angola and Namibia. A new genetic survey of people in Africa, the largest of its kind, suggests that the region in the south-west of the continent seems to be the origin of modern humans. The authors have also identified some 14 ancestral populations.
The new data goes a long way to towards equalising the genetic picture of the world, given that most genetic information has come from European and Asian populations. But because it comes from Africa, the continent on which the human lineage evolved, it also sheds light on the origins of human life.
"This is an enormously impressive piece of work," said Alison Brooks, a specialist on African anthropology at George Washington University.
The origin of a species is generally taken to be the place where its individuals show the greatest genetic diversity. For humans, when the new African data is combined with DNA information from the rest of the world, this spot lies on the coast of south-west Africa near the Kalahari Desert, the research team, led by Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania, said in the journal Science.
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Makes you kinda glad we were kicked out, eh?
Regarding the statement that "Clicks are difficult to pronounce fluently and with a single exception no click languages are known outside Africa." ~ clicks really aren't difficult to pronounce ~ there's also a cheek sucking sound that's pretty easy, and one where you do that while opening the mouth.
While in college ages back I had the opportunity to test the various hypotheses regarding these sounds with native speakers of several of these languages who'd come from Angola.
I said the sounds exactly correctly, as I'd done since childhood. In fact, with a little bit of instruction from the Angola guys I was able to merge the "clicks" and "smacks" with other sounds to say words.
I think writers who say such things about "click languages" simply haven't ever tried it themselves.
Actually, it's kind of like we are MADE to make those particular sounds. The only mystery is why such a large part of humanity dropped them!
No telling what sort of foolishness can be dreamed up.
“Human and Chimp Ancestors Might Have Interbred By Bjorn Carey, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 17 May 2006 01:12 pm ET
...... The earliest known ancestors of modern humans might have reproduced with early chimpanzees to create a hybrid species, a new genetic analysis suggests.”
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I think this proves the smartest, most ambitious people are always moving on down the road. The ones who stayed in Namibia have sure not evolved much.
Before I’m asked, yes I’ve been there.
Adam and Eve aint what they used to be, eh? They havent changed that much back in the homeland.
Nice work, africans.
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Namibia Bushmen were first people in ‘Garden of Eden’
The Times | 5/2/2009 | James Bone in New York
Posted on 05/01/2009 10:19:20 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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Garden of Eden was in Today’s Kalahari desert
The Times of India | 2 May 2009
Posted on 05/02/2009 9:38:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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>> I think this proves the smartest, most ambitious people are always moving on down the road. <<
I’d state the matter differently. The people who left were certainly more ambitious, but they may have included a mixture of the smart and the dumb.In fact, the average IQ of the departing group could have been exactly the same as the average IQ of the folks who stayed back.
Then over the course of the long and arduous journey, the dumb ones were less likely to survive. So by the end of the journey, the people who remained were likely to have been both smarter and more ambitious than the folks who stayed back in the old homeland.
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