"First Peoples" starts tonight on PBS

Actually, I’m confused: Was Eva one of the first Americans or not? It seemed like the DNA evidence was in opposition to the theory they had just spent 45 minutes building up. :confused:

Wasn’t there an episode of NOVA recently in which they established from DNA markers that the first people out of Africa followed the South Asia coastline all the way to Australia?

Ahh, the Homo sexuality.

I have the same question. They seem to have concluded that everyone was Clovis, and was part of the same migration. So how did Eva (and her blow gun) arrive centuries earlier?

And what’s with the idea that they had to learn so many things that their brains were larger; but modern city people don’t have to learn as much, so have smaller brains? We don’t have to learn as much? Really?

To paraphrase one of my favorite lines from a Carl Hiaasen novel: “‘Portal to another world,’ my ass. A box of Milk Duds starts to look pretty mystical if you smoke enough dope!”

Aha! This explains all those falling SAT scores! :smack:

Maybe its analogous to the wolf brain being larger than the dog because of domestication.

Don’t feel bad; I put it on my “watch” schedule as soon as I heard about it and was as disappointed as the rest of the posters here.

Side note: when the loud music came up, I switched on closed captioning, so can reassure you that you didn’t miss any major information.

PBS gives these folk as the producers (series doesn’t show on their site):