Re: "People first lived in Britain about 700,000 years ago" ?

JTEM wrote:
Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Erectus can be dated about two million years ago, Neanderthal
3-500,000 and Sapiens about 100,000. The times of leaving
Africa are more or less the same as the estimated speciation
as leaving isn't all that hard.

Not exactly correct. Start on this...

Of course not but then nothing is all they all disagree.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4269299.stm

However a BBC article or any article by a journalism major turned science writer is about the last place I would take as authoritative.

Particularly this article is mixing the genetic speciation with the result of tens of thousands of years of breeding in isolation. The person asking the question is not very clear about how to phrase the question. That makes it even more difficult to answer. I chose some "good enough" "rules of thumb" ages that will apply to most all the material he is going to come across any time soon. By the time he comes across material this does not cover he will have learned better ages and the qualifications on them. Note the absence of mention of Heidelberg/archaic Sapiens in Europe. Notice no mention of the other reasons for Neanderthal dates being odd such as remains being found on the eastern Med coast that are more recent than some Sapiens finds.

Those are the things that make the subject interesting but not until after the foundation is understood to see why they are interesting.

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