Re: Savanna: a slow demise

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In article <630996483wnr@desco.demon.co.uk>,
Elaine Morgan <Elaine@desco.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>JDMoore informs me that the savanna theory was already defunct in
>the nineteen sixties, before I ever wrote a word about evolution
>and I was too thick to realise it. Just a sprinkling of quotations:
<...>
>The savannah Theory is dead, but it did not end in the sixties, and it
>was an unconscionable time a-dying. Even up to less than a year ago,
>though the song may have ended, the melody lingered on.
>
>Elaine

I've been watching things here on the net for about three years, and I
only started seeing the "death of the savannah theory" comments within
the last year or so - since Tim White's 1994 article about his find.
In fact, the new theory doesn't even have a catch-phrase yet, though
I've seen it referred to as the "mosaic" theory. I don't know where
Moore is coming from; it sounds as if he's just trying to incite things.

Bryce

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