Re: Final Solution of the Aquatic Question


JAE wrote:
> Pauline M Ross wrote:
> > On 12 Aug 2005 09:07:28 -0700, "JAE" <jae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > [Pauline]I would say
> > >> that the only conclusion that can be drawn is that our ancestors were
> > >> not on mainland Africa at the time of the retrovirus.
> >
> > >This is not at all the only conclusion that can be drawn.
> >
> > In theory, true, but in practice...
>
> In practice, it's not the only conclusion that can be drawn. Do no
> confuse the conclusion you wish to draw with what can be drawn. The
> data don't rule in or rule out several possibilities.

To throw another spanner into the works... Could it not also be that
only *some* of our ancestors lived off the African mainland. Perhaps
*some* others, who remained on the mainland, received the marker but
were then replaced by the ones who had not received it? If Homo sapiens
was the result of a hybridisation event then wouldn't there have been a
50-50 chance of the outsiders' genotype replacing the African
populations'?

Just a thought!

Algis Kuliukas

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