Re: More on Baja Skulls

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Craig) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Doug Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:41:17 -0500 (CDT), in sci.archaeology.mesoamerican,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted an article:
> > 
> > >Neves
> > >argues that the change in skull shape after 8000 years ago is too sudden
> > >for evolution. 
> > 
> > Changes in skull shape are under debate once again. It seemed at one time
> > that Franz Boas had proven that they could happen within a generation.
> > But recently there have been challenges to his argument, and challenges to
> > the challengers.
> > 
> > http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/23/14622
> > http://www.rps.psu.edu/0305/boas.html
> > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lanceg/boas/index.htm
> > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lanceg/gravleeetal03a.pdf
> > 
> > Also relevant is the argument presented by Oppenheimer in Out of Eden: The
> > Peopling of the World, who describes the suggestion that virtually all
> > Native Americans came from Beringia, where a variety of populations were
> > marooned before the Late Glacial Maximum.  Some moved into the Americas
> > before the glaciers shut down the route, others (a surviving few) after
> > the glaciers melted.  He discusses possible origins in some detail using
> > genetic evidence.
> > 
> > Doug
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> 
>  So now we have a veritable united nations trekking across Beringia? I
> have to check out Oppenheimer, but I suspect he's shoehorning data
> into the Beringia model. The distribution of haplotypes in the New
> World would seem to rule out Oppenheimers 'suggestion'; as do the
> recent anomolies of Monte Verde, Lucia and Baja skulls. Is he a
> geneticist?
> 
> Duncan

 I couldn't find his book on amazon. I did find another book of his
titled, "Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia."
in which he suggests that civilization dispersed along the equatorial
sea lanes. What is Berengia? The sunken land or the Bering straits
passage? I did find out that he is a doctor,.... a pediatrician.

Duncan