At 10:41 1998-07-17 -0400, Todd wrote:
>This is interesting especially in how it might have a bearing on
>the presence of cooked foods in the paleolithic diet,

Maybe they were clever enough to eat raw :-)

> A common view, known as the "Out of Africa"
>hypothesis, is that modern humans, H.sapiens, evolved from H.
>erectus in Africa in the past 150 000 years.
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>capabilities of Homo erectus may be due  for reappraisal! If H.
>erectus acted like humans, they probably were our ancestors.

This does not contradict the out of Africa theory. Humans of different
evolutionary states have left Africa in waves. The earlier are now
exteinct and only the more recent few, all homo sapiens remain.

- Hans