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To: neolib who wrote (239344)	12/5/2013 7:20:26 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542059

I did, TL posted it. The story I tell, is that when I started my education I spent my freshman year in Pismo Beach California washing dishes. I was with my childhood mentor who worked as a busboy and was going to UC Cal. We would work during the day and then at night he would sit in one chair and I the other and spend the night reading. I read to Kill a Mockingbird that year. Best book ever. And I think the Republic by Plato? Anyway, so that was the official start of my search for understanding and it seemed to me the first step would be to understand human evolution. so I went to the library in San Louis Obispo. They did not have one book on our evolution. After that I spent the next 5o years following the discoveries. At first leaky and his theories. Then Donald Johanson. What was strange is that I was so wedded to Leaky's ideas that I sort of boycotted Johanson for a while? Which looking back was just weird. Anyway, after I read Johanson, then I felt he was right and leaky was wrong. Then a few years back they did the DNA at UC Berkeley and were very surprised to find out we only split off from the chimps about 5/6 million years ago. They had thought it was 20 million years (when we broke off from baboons). And only recently did they find out we mated with Neanderthal, Denisovans and other species of hominids. Very interesting stuff. Still lots of mysteries,