New evidence for we have a wrong view on our culture !?

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 20:56:18 GMT

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From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
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Subject: New evidence for we have a wrong view on our culture !?
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    Hi all,

    Long time no see, but that has its reasons...

    Just heard on BBC- World...

    Italian scientists claim that almost all Europeans are the decendents of
    just " 10 founding fathers ".

    The scientists claim that almost all Europeans are genetic related to those
    10 founding fathers. We are one big family...

    They also adress the possibility that those founding fathers were not the
    famous farmer- gatherers who game to Europe for about 8000 years ago,
    but were mush older ( about 40 000 years old).

    This means that our genetic ancestors were those peoples who lived in
    caves and who were somewhere down the line overpowered by the farmer-
    gatherer type. But like their rapport seems to indicate, that is genetical
    not the case.

    My idea is that our true genetic ancestors " imitated " those farmer-
    gatherer types and start of in that manner our history.
    Does that have any impact on our understanding of culture and therefor for
    our understanding for memetic evolution.
    It seems to me that we are carrying a " memetic " legacy that is not really
    ours !?

    Any suggestions...

    Many regards,

    Kenneth

    ( I am, because we are)

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