Did anyone else catch this reuters report.
Just thought I’d try to add something to update the evolution debates.
Link fixed
[Edited by Coldfire on 01-09-2001 at 07:59 AM]
OK, apparently the link as provided doesn’t work. Is this one of those “long link problems”? David, perhaps?
Alrighty, second try, try this here link!
AAARGH! Screw you guys, I’m going home 
[Edited by Coldfire on 01-09-2001 at 08:43 AM]
It seems that this evidence does not work for or against evolution in general, but is evidence against “Out Of Africa” theory specifically.
OOA is not “equal to” evolution; it is a theory that USES evolution. In other words, if you disprove OOA you do not disprove evolution.
Agree entirely.
Perhaps I should have titled the thread “Human evolution”.
There is further information at
http://www.news.com.au/
but I can’t work out how to link to the exact articles but they are easy to find once you are there. (at least they are as I post)
[hijack for technical discussion]
Is it maybe a Reuters registration thing? I get:
From http://www.news.com.au/ – I assume you’re talking about the “DNA clue to man’s origin” article?
Is that it? Here’s a tip for future reference, Palm Cove– if you will also quote the first few lines of whatever article you’re linking to, then if the link doesn’t work, any interested parties can usually go to the link’s home page and rummage around in Search using keywords from your quote.
Okay, [fooling around with the http://www.news.com.au home page] in this case, I see that if you click on “Reports” under the DNA article on the right-hand side, it takes you to a list of related articles but the URL in the window doesn’t change.
Clicking on the article “DNA clue to man’s origin” brings up the article but again, the article’s URL doesn’t show. Only the home page URL shows. What you can do in a case like this is look at the bottom of the window while it’s loading–it will say, “Connecting to site 123.456.789.000” and you can quickly jot down the numbers, I suppose. I’m not sure if that would work. Or else you can just provide detailed driving instructions for how to get to the article you want to talk about.
I dunno why some news websites won’t give you an URL for each article. But again, if you’ll include a short clip from the article you’re talking about, that gives us a starting point to go find it ourselves.
Anyway, here’s what the OP is getting at, I guess.
Hmm. Well, considering the large body of evidence supporting the OOA theory accumulated by a large number of independant researchers over several years, I’d hold off on throwing out the whole theory based on a single report, which itself is based on a single specimen.
The OOA theory is constantly being refined and altered as new evidence comes in, and even if the conclusions drawn by Thorne are proven correct, it merely adds another piece to the theory. I think there is a fair amount of standard journalistic hype in that article in an effort to create a tempest out of an interesting little cloud. Ahh, infotainment.
I don’t know about netscape but in IE if you right click on the link you can choose “copy shortcut” which places the URL on the clipboard. Works great for me. I don’t know about the crappy AOL browser, either. I usually just minimize AOL when I use it and hop into IE.
Anyway, for the post…
It seems that our species did have to originate in one location sure enough.
Oooh, that is cool! [doing happy dance around dining room]
Now I have to practice with it.
Mungo Man: the last of his kind?
Neat! Thank you.
Thank you for the advice all. Thank you for posting the links DDGoose.
In posting the OP I was not stating any opinion, merely trying to add to the considerable knowledge base already here.
Scrutiny and evaluation of evidence are the stuff of science and I felt pointing out new evidence to undergo scrutiny and evaluation was a valid form of “fighting ignorance”.