Posted on 10/25/2005 11:02:09 AM PDT by blam
No, and that is appropriate as a management choice. However, Bacon recommended boning up somewhat on these fringe areas of knowledge as part of a full, well-rounded education. That would not imply that any degree of belief is necessary, but some familiarity is necessary to anyone who must deal with people, because people give these fringe subjects much more attention than they deserve in themselves.
We might be more like libraries than dinosaur museums. They might have burnt the Alexandria library in stages and destroyed the source data for Ptolemy's Almagest in the process, but so long as there is a living human the entire story of that which is closest to us, the tattered tent, or most of it, is right there if we learn how to read it.
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There was a pretty remarkable show on PBS about a fellow who's studdying the markers on the Y chromosome. By mapping out the trees of the markers, he determined that mans most ancient relatives are basically what we would call the Kalahari Bushmen. But the odd thing was that the next place the marker was discovered wasn't Europe or Asia, it was the walkabouts... the Australian aborigines.
One fascinating part of the show, not necessarily about genetics, showed the folks who live in the far northern parts of Russia, I guess you'd call them laplanders.
Absolutely dependent on reindeer. Totally. There is no vegetation there, except for meager blue green algae. And the only thing that can eat it is the reindeer. So these folks live, breathe, eat and sleep with one goal in mind: keep the reindeer herds flourishing.
An incredibly specialized niche.
I fail to see any connection between this study and how whiners and losers see history. Am I missing something?
"Did conquest and concubines spread one man's genes across Asia?"
Some guys have all the luck. Nice work, if you can get it.
Seriously though, I did get back my Genographic project results, they are very interesting. I am apparently in Haplogroup R1a, with other interesting results as well.
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