Re: Turkana boy a ***.


"Peter Jason" wrote...
It seems our primitive forebears were all
living together in a sort of African
incestuous commune, freely intermarrying, and
screwing it all up for the
paleoarchaelogists.

unfortunately, the article you quote does not point to, or even suggest,
this conclusion.

[...]

"The fact that they stayed separate as
individual species for a long time suggests
they had their own ecological niche, thus
avoiding direct competition."

[...]

Asked if erectus might have hunted and eaten
habilis, he said: "I'm not sure, but I doubt
it. I suspect they largely avoided each
other.

"These were not enormous populations, they
were in relatively small groups over a large
area.

"The same discussion is going on with modern
humans and Neanderthals. There's no good
evidence whether they actually interacted
much."


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