>That would place him [Java Man] in the era of modern humans---and argue
>against >an ancestral relationship."If these dates are right," said Philip
>Rightmire, an >anthropologist at the State University of New York at
>Binghamton, "the >multiregionalists will have to do some fast thinking."
>...
>
>The new findings also challenge the rival Out of Africa theory. That view
>holds >that modern humans emerged in Africa as recently as 150,000 years
>ago and >spread around the globe, driving Homo erectus into
>extinction---well before the >era pointed to by the new finding.
>(Maclean's, science section,"The origins of man", Dec. 23, p. 69)
Jim