Re: The 1st Paleontologist and Noah

pdd@gcc.cc.md.us
29 Aug 1996 21:38:40 EDT

GR>Not, like the Anasazi. Like the Greenland colony. Every single member of t
GR>Greenland colony who was there after 1410 A.D. left no descendants upon this
GR>earth. They went extinct. The fact that there were lots more Norsemen wher
GR>they came from does not negate the fact that they went extinct.

But weren't Neanderthals fairly widespread, not really a colony? We have
already discussed their presence in the Middle East as well as France...
its hard to imagine the cause for the extinction. Extinction speaks to
the disappearance of a defineable population. Wouldn't more plausable
explanations like assimilation be easier to construct?

Paul

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