Re: The inhabitants of Easter Island


"Chip Flintknapper" <nobody@xxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Steffen wrote:

I've been told, that the population of the Easter Island can be more
complex
than earlier thought.
Some books tells, that the entire original inhabitants came from
Polynesia.
Other books tells, that some of the people (in the 1700s) were very tall
and
lightskinned - some of them should even have been red-haired.
If that is true, the settlement of the Easter Island may be just as
fascinating as the settlement of America appears to be - - - after the
discovery of the Kennewick Man.
Steffen, Denmark

I have also heard that Easter Island was populated from the other
direction, South America, which is closer.

The problem with all of the hypotheses lies within the assumption that
our progenitors were a single man and woman. This goes even further back
to the assumption that all life began as a single cell.

No one has suggested simultaneous evolution.

In other words, there was not an original human race, but several
species of apes evolved at the same time.


Very unlikely. Once separated, species can't have fertile offspring with
members of different species. Only very closely related species can
crossbreed at all (like horses and donkeys), but mostly the offspring is
infertile.
Evolution works in one direction and can't be inverted. Like two branches of
a tree, once separated, can't unite again at their tops.
Whether the Easter Island population came from Asia or from South America,
they share with us a common ancestor.


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