Re: Lice Evolution May Reflect sapiens/erectus Contact

From: richard01 (richardparker01_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: 6 Oct 2004 06:29:32 -0700

"firstjois" <firstjoisyike@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Z_ydnZubKYRmkP7cRVn-gw@comcast.com>...
> "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
> news:4162F1ED.7E9AA658@hotmMOVEail.com...
> : Lengthy but worth it...
> :
> :
> Genetic Analysis of Lice Supports Direct Contact between Modern and
> Archaic Humans
> David L. Reed, Vincent S. Smith, Shaless L. Hammond, Alan R. Rogers,
> Dale H. Clayton
> A phylogenetic analysis reveals that humans have two types of head
> lice and that one must have switched from an ancient to a modern human
> host, suggesting these humans had contact.

This goes on to say:

"Mark
Stoneking, an
expert on human evolution from the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary
Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, says the findings depend on the
last
common ancestor of the two species of lice having lived almost 1.2
million
years ago. The calculation to obtain this figure depends on the size
of the
lice population at that time. So if the population estimates are
inaccurate,
the results may be misleading, he says.

And he should know - he's spent the last 15+ years trying to correct
his computer's original balls-ups on 'Out Of Africa'. Perhaps he's got
a little more 'hard knocks' experience than yet another news vendor
selling a daft idea based on the gospel spelled out by yet another
Microsoft proprietary computer program.

To build back from 'the simplest' - most parsimonious? solution of the
problems thrown up by this unexpected result - (not described anywhere
in any detail) and claim that American Indian ancestors once screwed
Homo erectus or even wore their second-hand leathers is arrant
nonsense.

There are altogether too many 'specialists' in this field, all trying
to gain credit for whatever they might have to say - from taphonomists
through flint-knappers, geneticists, statisticians (who lie, by
definition), and whatever anyone's calling himelf nowadays.

Give them all a miss, and judge by commonsense.....

(Defined as the prejudices you acquired by the time you were 18).

Regards

Richard

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