Posted: Jun 27, 2011 9:49 am
Galaxian wrote:rainbow wrote:Multi-Regionalism is the pseudo-science behind Racist Theories.
Whatever you've been smokin' Rainbow, I don't want it.
Multiregionalism is a fact of human evolution. All your ranting won't change that. It might obscure the science for some, for a while, but the truth has a nasty habit of re-emerging.
Multiregionalism simply means that there have been successive waves of emigration to & from Africa, over hundreds of thousands of years.
And as these waves of emigres met the former immigrant population (which had evolved in its own direction), they interbred to some extent, before one or other went extinct.
The mixing of Neanderthals & Cro Magnon had been poo-pooed for many decades. Only brave anthropologists dared whisper it. It has now been established by DNA analysis that some 4% of European & Near East inheritance is Neanderthal. The Chinese don't have that component, so hey presto... we have multiregionalism!
There are skeletal features that are distinct between pure Mongoloids & pure Nordics, such as the position of nerve sinuses on the skull.
Some wombat out there has suggested that different features are just due to climate. Yeah, keep on dreaming
I have to say that I recognise nothing in the above that relates to my studies of expressly this topic 15 years ago.