Re: AUSTRALOIDS

Yousuf Khan (ykhan@achilles.net)
Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:11:09 GMT

On 24 Aug 1996 23:15:08 GMT, bard@smarty.smart.net (E.G. Land)
wrote:

> AUSTRALOIDS

> _The New American Desk Encyclopedia_ says this: ""...Recent
>researches have suggested that they may be the result of interbreeding
>between between an original population of "Homo erectus" and the earliest
>membrs of "Homo sapiens."

> What is being said here -- that Australian Aborigines are some
> sort of sub Homo sapien species?

I don't see what's wrong with this statement, because more than
likely, that's exactly how every other homo sapien breed is too.

Maybe they are suggesting the interbreeding took place later than
in other parts of the world, but that's upto someone else to
prove or disprove.

Yousuf Khan

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