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Re: homo erectus
Vincent DeLuca (vincent1@ix.netcom.com)
25 Sep 1995 04:03:43 GMT
In <443umb$ddn@rebecca.albany.edu> cc3265@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU writes:
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>In article <butlerDFECJ3.DzH@netco
>>But I am reading right here about the cro-magnins evolving into
>>modern homo sapiens. Many of you would say otherwise, or I am
>>mis-reading.
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>Cro-magnons WERE modern homo sapiens. They were a group found in
southern
>France, 3 adult males, one female, and 4 children discovered in 1868
in
>a rock shelter in the village of Les Eyzies, Dordogne. They are the
best
>known H. sapiens group because they were so well-studied. They have
been
>referred to as a "race" but not a separate species.
>The argument going on now is whether regional groups of H. erectus or
whether
>Neandertals in Europe evolved into H. sapiens.
>Caroline
>
What happened to the *Out of Africa* argument?
Vincent1
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