Appreciate the enthusiam in your comment, but I wanna make sure you know that forests are larger areas covered with trees and undergrowth. Trees are living things, and support other living things like mammals, birds, reptiles, etc. So I don’t quite get your logic in saying “No life was in Europe.” Do you know what you’re talking about?

Kambiz

When I wrote this, I did not have the paper in my hand. I was running off of what the press said. So that is where I got the multiregional stuff from.

I got the paper one day later, and reviewed it. You should check it out,
Martinón-Torres, et al. fail to show an Asian Hominin Dispersal.

Kambiz

This is an old story. The tooth people have always had problems with the replacement theory, going back to the distinction they’ve found between Sinodonts and Sundadonts, which tells them that modern Chinese and Indonesians must be descended from homo erectus with similar teeth.

First of all, if you look around you when people smile, you’ll see that teeth evolve a LOT more quickly than is being claimed since there seems to be a awful lot of VERY different looking teeth just on the people you see around you every day. And that’s AFTER all the orthodontics and bridge building. I was born with some missing teeth, as were all my mother’s brothers, and in exactly the same places. Did that gene come from Africa or Asia, I wonder?

When you are talking genes the proof of the pudding lies in the genes themselves, NOT teeth. The genetic evidence tells us that European, Asiatic, Amerindian, Melanesian, etc., etc. genes ALL come from Africa. If someone can find a gene that determines tooth type and THAT gene can’t be traced to modern humans in Africa then I’ll be impressed.