Re: Polynesian canoes (Re: Rat genes solve mystery of great Pacific odyssey

rmccully_at_woh.rr.com
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 02:19:13 GMT

Hell witch Rats in canoes
"Yuri Kuchinsky" <yuku@trends.ca> wrote in message
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> Peter Ashby wrote:
> >
> > G Horvat <g-horvat@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:40:33 -0400, Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku@trends.ca>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >G Horvat wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > >> It is implied,
> > > >> for instance, in some craniometric articles that Polynesian-like
> > > >> Paleoindians were replaced by more recent Native American who (1/4
of
> > > >> them), according to their mtDNA sequences, shared a common ancestry
> > > >> with Polynesians. While, I suppose, this is possible, it does not
> > > >> seem like the most logical conclusion to me.
> > > >
> > > >Can you clarify this for me a bit, Gisele? What is the most
> > > >logical conclusion here, in your view?
> > >
> > > If I have to explain it, maybe it isn't so logical? :-) Geneticists
> > > maintain that there is continuity in the mtDNA sequences of past and
> > > present Native Americans but physical anthropologists recognize
> > > differences between early and later crania. If both are right, then
> > > 1) the physical differences must be due to admixing which occurred
> > > within the New World and 2) admixture must adversely affect physical
> > > anthroplogist's abilities to connect past and present Native
> > > Americans. Solution: compare the Paleoindian crania to those of an
> > > Old World population which displays little evidence of admixture (in
> > > their mtDNA sequences at least) and who is genetically related to 1/4
> > > of Native Americans hence Polynesians (93% haplogroup B) to determine
> > > what the earliest harborers of haplogroup B sequences looked like (if
> > > contemporaneous measurements are not available).
> >
> > So what in all that makes you think that an explanation which has blond
> > aryans crossing from Egypt to South America (after building the
> > pyramids) and then passing on to colonise the Pacific from East to west
> > in contradiction of the archaeological data?
>
> Here's some further proof, if any was needed, that Mr. Ashby
> hasn't read Heyerdahl...
>
> Yuri.
>
> Yuri Kuchinsky -=O=- http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku
>
> "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so,
> it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it
> isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
> -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"