On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Mark Labbee wrote:

> Have you read Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffery Schwartz? The
> authors are two leading paleoanthropologist who have done a recent review of
> the hominid fossil record by personally visiting almost every specimen
> available. They dispute that humans evolution was a simple progression of a
> single lineage from a primitive ancestor to ourselves. So far it is very
> absorbing reading.

The point of their work, as I understand it, is not that there is
no single lineage of modern humans, but rather that the path to
modern humans was a branching one, sometimes with branches
existing contemporaneously.  This means that for long stretches
of time there was more than one species of humans in the world,
but eventually all but one became extinct.  This is, in fact,
just the sort of research that Geoff Bond relies on.

Todd Moody
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PS Galilee, eh?  I was at George's restaurant last summer.
Always a pleasure.