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From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: re: A Common Female Ancestor for Everyone
Message-ID: <709@hao.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 19:28:48 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.709
Posted: Tue Nov 15 19:28:48 1983
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Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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This seems to imply one of the following:
 - There were no hominids before ~50K years ago.
 - All hominids except one family were somehow wiped out in that time.
 - Our common ancestral tribe went a-raiding and delivered their
     excess women throughout the world.
 - Our common ancestral tribe slaughtered all other hominids in the
      world.

Since the first three options seem unlikely for one reason or another,
and the one that is left is very disconcerting to me, I would appreciate
it if someone would think up a more pleasant explanation of this.


Michael Ward