On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:24:25 -0500, Elizabeth Hawxhurst
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>
> Of course there's also the caveat that perhaps the geological record is
> absent in non-African localities from the period in time that these early
> humans would have existed.
>

True, no glaciation in the Rift valley, and in the arctic the muck is
always frozen, very hard to dig.

Still, African-only genesis can be irritating.

William