[blam]

Click on the source for the rest of this article.

It just gets stranger and stranger.

[blam]

Ping.

[eddie willers]

It is also possible, he said, that their resemblance to African Pygmies is a human adaptation to living in forests that the two populations developed independently.

Big butts are an advantage in the forest?

[r9etb]

It just gets stranger and stranger.

Indeed. But it's only strange because of the assumptions made to date about human movement, and human abilities. If modern human beans have been around for 100,000 years, there's absolutely no reason to expect that they were stupid and sedentary for 90% of their history. Yet that's the apparent assumption.

Consider how little physical evidence there is of civilizations from 5,000 years ago, and then multiply the time span by 10 -- civilizations could have existed, and we'd be hard pressed to find them (or to distinguish them from newer ones....)

Now if you toss in a volcano bigger than the one that caused The Year Without a Summer in 1816, then you can kill off most of humanity, and destroy any civilizations that may have existed prior to the explosion.

[Little Bill]

Kinda looks like the College, we are all one, types are boming to my argurement about remnants. The out of Africa arguement lacks logical consistancy, id, we dug 'em there therefore that is where they started. BS.

Now, when they start to realize that the Minoan civilation was drenched in blood, expantionist, and warlike, my life will be complete.

[Junior]

Ping.

[GOP_1900AD]

Now we can see the apparent origin of the "nga" (people in southern Thailand who have nappy hair and very dark skin).

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[arthurus]

The author compares the Andamanese to pygmies then describes bushman characteristics. The bushmen of southern Africa are short but are not related to the pygmies of central Africa. It is the bushmen who have the peppercorn hair, protruding buttocks, etc. They also have the blue spot on their backs that identifies them as Asians rather than Africans. I wonder if those islanders have that spot.

[Darnright]

The things you can learn on Free Republic bump

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Studies Prove People Of Madagascar Came From Borneo And Africa
Mongabay | 7-10-2005 | MongaBay
Posted on 07/10/2005 8:31:26 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1440141/posts

[SunkenCiv]