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From: "Orin R. Wells" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] GENES - OT - Mungo Man
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:37:22 -0800
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I am not sure this is really Off Topic (OT) as it does deal with DNA

At 04:08 PM 1/16/01 +1100, albert abel wrote:

>I have not checked, but the discovered skeleton is listed as "The Mungo
>Man", found in Lake Mungo..

IMHO The article from the Washington Post was interesting. It indicated
that the DNA from the Mungo Man is unlike any of the indigenous people or
any other known although they have identified bits in the cell nuclei that
match some modern folks.

Coincidentally, last night "Coast to Coast" (yeah, I sometimes listen to
strange things when nothing else is on as I drive home from taking my wife
to her night job) had a fellow who was saying that the anthropology
community is currently split with the "establishment" holding on to the
"out of Africa" theory for dear life and the "others" claiming that there
is no provable connection between most of the humanoid remains predating
120,000 years ago and modern man. His contention is that the rest of the
fossils are from ancestors of "Bigfoot" and the like, not modern man. He
further stated that man as we know him today and his ancestors has not been
found in earth's fossils predating 120,000 years and further that the DNA
"history" appears to date back only about 250,000 years. That we just
"suddenly appeared".

Here is where he and I part company. It is clear that his belief is that
our ancestors were dropped, planted, or stranded here and were from
"somewhere else". Maybe, but it might also give support to the "God
created Man" camp. If they can eventually prove any of this, then it
surely puts Darwinian theories at risk. How will they explain a sudden
appearence of an advanced species?

Any comments from you Genetic scientists on the list?

Orin R. Wells
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