Re: Homo heidelbergensis
Herb Huston (huston@access.digex.net)
4 Jun 1994 19:25:25 -0400
In article <2sh6l2$j8d@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Sharon A Palmer <sapalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
}>sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) wrote:
}>> (The longest that
}>> purely cultural factors have been able to keep two con-specific
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
}>> population seperate is about 2500 years in the case of the Jews,
}>> and that is an extremely unusal case).
}
}I have read that the Tasmanians were separated from all others for
}10 thousand years. This was a small population, on an island, [...]
^^ ^^ ^^^^^^
An island is far from a purely cultural factor.
[...] but
}they were not a separate species.
As evidenced by many contemporary Tasmanians.
-- Herb Huston
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