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Out of (southern) Africa: Modern man 'evolved from desert bushmen'
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | March 8, 2011 | DAVID DERBYSHIRE

Posted on 03/08/2011 4:50:30 AM PST by Pharmboy

The first modern people evolved in southern Africa more than 60,000 years ago - and not in the east of the continent as most scientists believe, a study concludes. After analysing DNA samples from 27 populations in modern-day Africa, researchers say the most likely location for the 'cradle of humanity' is the Kalahari desert region of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. The modern-day click-speaking bushman from the desert show the greatest genetic diversity of any Africans - suggesting that their home was the birthplace of the first true Homo sapiens.


Originators: The home of the modern day click-speaking bushman in the Kalahari desert is the birthplace of the first true Homo sapiens, scientists claim


Most experts now believe that modern humans evolved in Africa between 150,000 and 60,000 years ago and then migrated to the Near East, Europe, Asia and eventually America

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: evolution; genes; godsgravesglyphs; humans; outofafrica
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To: Jim Noble; ClearCase_guy; Pharmboy; blam

Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction Race and Human Evolution:
A Fatal Attraction

by Milford Wolpoff
and Rachel Caspari
hardcover


21 posted on 03/08/2011 5:33:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Pharmboy

it appears to me that there is a current dogma today which states that H. Sapien came from Africa. It is so embedded in academia that no evidence can shake it, or no idiotic statement supporting it will be questioned.IMHO


22 posted on 03/08/2011 6:07:40 PM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: Pharmboy

All this sounds like unadulterated pure BS...


23 posted on 03/08/2011 6:11:22 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: ClearCase_guy
Of course, my worldview allows for the belief in miracles. But the secular humanists? They ought to find such miracles hard to swallow.

The sum total of things viewed as miracles in the Bible is probably somewhere between 20 and 50. Evolution on the other hand requires believing in a trans-finite sequence of absolute zero-probability events and probabilistic miracles. Which is the religion?

Other than that the whole idea of modern man evolving from hominids is basically untenable at this juncture.

24 posted on 03/08/2011 7:05:12 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: Pharmboy; SunkenCiv; All
......Kalahari desert region of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. The modern-day click-speaking bushman from the desert show the greatest genetic diversity......

When I read that the first thing I thought of was that great old movie.......

The Gods Must Be Crazy

All Time Great Flick!
Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out on a good movie.

25 posted on 03/08/2011 7:17:58 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix
The Gods Must Be Crazy

When I was in the Navy machinery division named ourselves "The Raging Rhinos" because all we did we run around stomping out fires.

26 posted on 03/08/2011 7:20:58 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pharmboy
I posted this to FR years ago but they made JimRob delete it:

African Click Language 'Holds Key To Origins Of Earliest Human Speech'

27 posted on 03/08/2011 7:22:54 PM PST by blam
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To: Pan_Yan
LOL. That was one of the great scenes from the movie when that Rhino stomped out the fire.
lol
One of the many great scenes.......
28 posted on 03/08/2011 7:25:54 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Shimmer1

No wonder we like Coca Cola.


29 posted on 03/08/2011 7:46:33 PM PST by Pelham (Islam, mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: blam

I remember that point of view, and probably first read it on your post.


30 posted on 03/09/2011 4:10:50 AM PST by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: Pharmboy

31 posted on 03/09/2011 4:44:01 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Pharmboy; SunkenCiv

As I recall, most theories about animal life start with all life beginning in the seas.

Don’t dolphins communicate in a ‘click’ language? Perhaps we are descended from dolphins or at least are cousins who left the sea in search of....

Next time I see a dolphin, I’m gonna say “Hi cuz,” and see what happens.


32 posted on 03/09/2011 9:59:45 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: Cacique

Gotta fit the observations into the worldview, donchaknow?

The worldview (ie, the presuppositions) come first,
and then all interpretations of evidential observations is filtered through those presuppositions.


33 posted on 03/09/2011 10:02:22 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Waverunner

LOL! When I saw this thread the first thing I thought of was that movie. Great movie BTW!


34 posted on 03/09/2011 10:40:48 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: wildbill

Not bad, not bad at all. Although, dolphins have internal testicles.


35 posted on 03/09/2011 6:09:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Fiddlstix

:’)


36 posted on 03/09/2011 6:19:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: colorado tanker; SunkenCiv
Great movie BTW!

I assure you from personal experience, the scenes about the Land Rover were not slapstick comedy. They were sober well-researched absolutely accurate documentary. The replacement in the Kalahari of the Land Rover by Toyota trucks absolutely eliminated the romance of Africa. It removed all the adventure in a breakdown a zillion miles from nowhere.

37 posted on 03/09/2011 7:02:26 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SunkenCiv

Ckik,clik,clik. (translation. And a good thing they are internal. Wives will be discouraged from coveting)


38 posted on 03/10/2011 6:03:46 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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