Re: DISCOVER/Neanderthal/Homo Sap.
A scientist (science@io.com)
28 Sep 1995 12:01:55 GMT
In article <herwin-2509952050400001@192.0.2.1> herwin@gmu.edu (Harry Erwin) writes:
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>In article <hubey.811830973@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
>hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) wrote:
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>> Why haven't the South American Indians become even darker;
>> they've certainly been around in that environment a lot longer
>> than the Indo-Europeans in India.
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>A good issue. I'll defer to the physical anthropologists on this, but I
>think you will find that they are about as dark, implying the selective
>process has stabilized.
An explanation I heard was that they lived in dense jungles where the
sunlight rarely penetrated. Could be they had very limited variation
to start with, of course.
--
Jim the Scientist
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