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March 16, 2012

another drop-out?

The Red Deer People - only 11,000 years ago..

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Exactly where the Red Deer Cave people belong in our family tree is unclear. Curnoe says they could be related to some of the earliest members of our species (Homo sapiens), which evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago and then spread across Asia to reach China. He prefers the idea that they represent a new evolutionary line that evolved in East Asia in parallel with our species, just as Neanderthals did – primarily because they look very different to early African members of our species.

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Fantastic. The white contrail sticking out of the earth looks like a withered stem on an enormous grape...

Posted by: greg b | March 16, 2012 at 09:03

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