Re: Competition did in the Neanderthals????

Cory Albrecht <coryalbre...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you give any thought to the possibility that reason
they were unimpressed was that you did not provide a
decent amount of evidence to support your wild
speculation?

I guess the problem is that there's been a great deal of
wild speculation thrown about (starting with the story I
quoted), but only a subset of the wild speculation is
ever challenged so rudely.

Wild speculation? Sheesh! Look at the mtDNA that's
been tossed around for years! Did you know that the
original "Out of Africa/Eve" mtDNA study began with the
exact OPPOSITE assumptions as those who point to
Neanderthal mtDNA as "evidence" that there was no
interbreeding? Which is to say, the people who performed
the OOA/Eve study assumed that two distinct populations
could coexist for centuries -- with a not insignificant amount
of interbreeding -- and still maintain their distinct mtDNA
lines. They used African American mtDNA for their "African"
subjects, despite interbreeding being the absolute worst
kept secret of the Antebellum south...

Oh. Maybe I should point out that the results of the original
OOA/Eve studies have been duplicated, with latter teams
using African subjects for their African mtDNA. So, if their
assumptions were wrong then it was one of those rare
occurances where "wrong" is indistinquishable from "right."

Where am I going with this?

Well the whole mtDNA is WORSE than "wild speculation,"
it's thoroughly debunked poo, yet nobody here challenges
it.

.

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