Comment on Human Evolution: the water theory.

meika Tue, Jan 19, 2010

We believe that on the far southern shore of Africa there was a small population of modern humans who struggled through the glacial period 125,000 to 195,000 years ago using shellfish and advanced technologies, and symbolism was important to their social relations. It is possible that this population could be the progenitor population for all modern humans,“ Marean said.

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Until now, one of the main reasons for doubting the “Out Of Africa” theory was the existence of inconsistent evidence in Australia. The skeletal and tool remains that have been found there are strikingly different from those elsewhere on the “coastal expressway” – the route through South Asia taken by the early settlers.

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Geneticist Dr Peter Forster, who led the research, said: “Although it has been speculated that the populations of Australia and New Guinea came from the same ancestors, the fossil record differs so significantly it has been difficult to prove. For the first time, this evidence gives us a genetic link showing that the Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean populations are descended directly from the same specific group of people who emerged from the African migration.”

Even today Tasmania Aboriginal Palawa women make small shell necklaces like at Blombos, South Africa, and the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt, eastern Morocco.

82,000 years ago

in Tasmania Today

Semi-Aquatic Ape (after bottleneck survival population on South African coast).