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   Martin Edwards to Ned Latham   
   Re: Origin of modern humans   
   01 Nov 19 07:58:44   
   
   From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 10/31/2019 8:23 AM, Ned Latham wrote:   
   > Martin Edwards wrote:   
   >> JTEM wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> It's never been popular in China, it's never not been disputed and it's   
   >>> never been internally consistent.   
   >>   
   >> A tv programme I once saw seemed to suggest, and I am not sure that I   
   >> have got this right, that the Chinese think that they are descended from   
   >> Homo erectus.   
   >   
   > Seems a good hypothesis. I read years ago that the facial structure of   
   > Homo Erectus in East Asia was distinctly Asiatic.   
   >   
   >>                 As they can breed with all other surviving humans, this   
   >> seems a but odd.   
   >   
   > Not at all. Human speciation has been massively muddled by the "experts".   
   >   
   Are you saying that Homo erectus was not a different species?  It's   
   plausible.  There seem to have been a lot of "humans" and "hominids".   
   Perhaps some were just individuals with unusual phsysiques.   
      
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