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Skriven 2006-11-12 20:33:33 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 24985 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Good Book
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John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH> Mimi Gallandt -> John Hull wrote:
 MG>> John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH>>> Mimi Gallandt -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
 MG>>>> I'm reading a book I think you would like. It's called Where G-d was
 MG>>>> Born (there's no hyphen in the title, some habits die hard or not at
 MG>>>> all) by Bruce Feiler. He wrote about his traveling the paths of the
 MG>>>> bible(s). I'm learning things about the Middle East that I never
 JH> knew
 MG>>>> before, it's really interesting. It has caused me to ponder a
 MG>> question
 MG>>>> that Google isn't answering for me, but I bet you could; which
 JH>>> fossil is
 MG>>>> older Lucy or Peking Man?


 JH>>> Lucy is one of three major fossil examples of Australopithicus
 MG>> Aferensis
 JH>>> which have come of the Great Rift Valley in the horn of Africa.  Lucy
 JH>>> was found first, then a male dubbed AL 444-2 was found; and the
 MG>> last is
 JH>>> called the Dikika Baby, also a female.  The baby is oldest at 3.3
 JH>>> million years, with Lucy and the male slightly younger.  The baby
 JH> is a
 JH>>> nearly complete skeleton, about 3 years old at time of death.  They
 MG>> are
 JH>>> distinctly gorilla-like in appearance, though many human features are
 JH>>> evident in the bone structure.  The November 2006 issue of National
 JH>>> Geographic has an excellent article on the Dikika baby.

 JH>>> "Peking Man" is an example of Homo Erectus, and are between 500,000
 MG>> and
 JH>>> 300,000 years old.  Go to www.chineseprehistory.org/index for more
 JH>>> information and pictures of the fossils.  Homo Erectus is the last of
 JH>>> the so-called proto-human species of hominid.

 JH>>> You may also be interested to know that the skull of a baby was
 MG>> found in
 JH>>> Chad (central Africa at the southern end of the Sahara) that pushes
 MG>> the
 JH>>> date for proto-humans back to about 7.2 million years.

 MG>> Wow, thanks. So it's a pretty good bet that Mesopotamia really was the
 MG>> cradle of civilization.

 JH> Well, no, it isn't.  There was a DNA study a couple years ago (a major
 JH> US university and one of the European centers of study of early man)
 JH> that traced mitochandrial DNA from all over the world to determine not
 JH> only the geographical origins of mankind, but to trace ancestry and how
 JH> humanity spread across the world.

My thinking was that it would have been more likely that humans migrated to
Mesopotamia and founded civilization than for them to migrate from China. Maybe
my perception of civilization requiring the presence of laws and learning is
different than yours?

 JH> Most of the experts on human ancestry and origination agree that eastern
 JH> Africa is the crucible in which proto-human species first appeared.  By
 JH> tracing DNA you can follow the spread of proto-human species out of
 JH> Africa into what today is the eastern Mediterranean, the Balkins, and
 JH> the area around the Black Sea AND out of the horn of Africa across the
 JH> south end of what is now Arabia into the Indian subcontinent and finally
 JH> into what is now China and Indonesia and Australia.  The whole process
 JH> took a couple of million years.

 JH> Those early species of human were eventually replaced by more and more
 JH> human-like species in successive waves of emigration over the course of
 JH> several million years.  By the time of the last ice age, Neanderthals
 JH> had spread across southern Europe as far as Spain, France, southern
 JH> Germany and Austria, the Caucasus/Black Sea area and up across Russia
 JH> all the way to Siberia.  By the time the first pre Homo Sapiens
 JH> (Cro-Magnon) came along, they were beginning to migrate across the same
 JH> range as Neanderthals, across the Bering land bridge into North America,
 JH> and into northern Europe and Briton on the heels of the retreating
 JH> glaciers.  The last great migration was of the early modern Home Sapiens
 JH> out of Siberia, down the North American Pacific coast into South America
 JH> and across both north and south America to the Atlantic.  That took
 JH> place approximately 25,000 to 18,000 years ago.  After that, the land
 JH> bridge (which also brought hundreds of species of animals into North
 JH> America) disappeared, cutting off the western hemisphere from the rest
 JH> of the world.

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