1 The Y-chromosome in men proves that the last common ancestor was 49,000
years ago.
Fact, the best guess is 270,000 years (see~Robert L. Dorit,
Hiroshi Akashi, Walter Gilbert, "Absence of Polymorphism at the ZFY locus on
the Human Y Chromosome,"~Science, May 26, 1995, p. 1184) Only the absolutely
best set of circumstances allow the last common male ancestor to fall into the
that range.
2. There is no evidence for language prior to 40,000 years ago.
Fact: The first evidence for the brain structures which are involved in speech
are dated to 2.0 million years and come from the 1470 skull. Because of this
Falk can write:
"Although those of us who study hominid brain evolution ('paleoneurologists')
are notorious for our disagreements, we do seem to agree that early hominids
may have been capable of language. What accounts for this unusual agreement
is the strength and convergence of biological/comparative evidence that favors
an early origin for language."~Dean Falk, "Comments", Current Anthropology
30:2, April 1989, p. 141
Ross cited a guy I had never heard of as his source for the concept that there
was no language.
3. He said that Neanderthal had no capacity for speech.
One of the most vocal critics of Neanderthal speech capabilities wrote:
"This is not to say that classic Neanderthals lacked speech capabilities and
language. As I have pointed out in every publication on this topic, the
classic Neanderthal supralaryngeal vocal tract would have allowed speech; the
archaeological evidence of Neanderthal culture, moreover, is consistent with
their having some form of language, and the new data reported by Bar-Yosef and
his colleagues reinforce these conclusions."~Philip Lieberman, "On the Kebara
KMH 2 Hyoid and Neanderthal Speech," Current Anthropology, 34:2(April 1993):
172-175, p. 174
4. He said that anatomically modern humans are not found on any continent
until 25-30,000 years ago.
Fact:
"Border Cave has provided an infant's skeleton, an adult
skull, two partial adult mandibles, and some postcranial bones whose
assignement to Homo sapiens sapiens is undisputed. The deposits
containing the fossils are clearly older than the 50,000-40,000-
years-ago range of conventional radiocarbon dating and contain
artifacts resembling those which are thought to date from the Last
Interglaciation at Klasies River Mouth, that is, sometime between
130,000 and 74,000 years ago. "~Richard G. Klein, The Human Career,
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 353
This makes me want to cry because he is so influential and so wrong.
glenn
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