From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue 28 Oct 2003 - 09:24:44 GMT
--- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote: > At
09:38 AM 27/10/03 +0000, you wrote:
> The human line's expansion into the north is (if I
> remember correctly) at
> least 800,000 years back. They were expanding into
> big game areas.
Yes, but recent data on Y-chromosomal lineages
suggests that none of these Homo erectus and archaic
sapiens groups have any modern decendents. Everybody
alive today is descended from people who were in
Southern Africa until about 135,000 years bp.
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