>That humans are non-tropical hominids ( as evidenced by our susceptibility
>to tropical diseases, HIV, Herpes B, Malaria, etc. that are near harmless to
>all tropical Primates) is often overlooked by many scientists.
Hi Ray;
I thought that mtDNA studies show that humans originated in Africa and
fanned out from there -- although I am not sure at which time all this took
place...
Marilyn