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To: tejek who wrote (247416)	8/25/2005 1:37:34 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572207

RE:"So then its not clear that N. America was settled by pre Polynesians? I don't understand why its not possible that human life originated here just as it did in Africa, Asia and Europe?" The USA never gets credit for anything.

To: tejek who wrote (247416)	8/25/2005 1:42:23 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572207

"So then its not clear that N. America was settled by pre Polynesians?" As with any soft-science, this area is dominated by personalities. Advances in DNA analysis will determine the truth, but that takes time.

To: tejek who wrote (247416)	8/25/2005 7:04:51 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1572207

Are you talking about that theory of "Distributed Pre Darwinism"? No link, you Google. Unless you are already an expert that is. Taro

To: tejek who wrote (247416)	8/31/2005 2:58:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

Its too much to say its not possible, but it doesn't seem likely, and the evidence is against it. Its almost universally accepted that our more primitive relatives came out of Africa. Some think that Homo Sapiens Sapiens evolved from the more primitive members of the genus Homo in Europe and Asia. Its possible, but its unlikely IMO, that the species could have evolved together from Europe, all the way across Asia, and in to North and South America. (But then I'm not an anthropologist, or evolutionary biologist, so you might not care about my view.) The majority view (and my personal view) is that homo sapiens also evolved in Africa and then spread out to Europe and Asia, then later to the Pacific Islands and North and South America. Tim