Re: AUSTRALOIDS

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Eric Brunner wrote:
>
> Imagine instead written of Europeans:
>
> Recent researches have suggested that they may be the result of
> interbreeding between between an original population of "Homo
> neanderthalus" and the earliest members of "Homo sapiens."
>
> See any fur fly?
>

I have read precisely this speculation (though not recently), and I
haven't seen any fur fly.

The question of whether Australian Aborigines do or don't have a more
direct relationship to Homo erectus than other races is a matter of
fact, and it should have no political overtones. In particular, such a
claim -- right or wrong -- does not necessarily imply a value judgement.

Steve Barnard

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