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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalonji: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalonji: [qb] You Europeans just don't learn do you? It still hasn't seeped through your heads that phenotypes aren't inherent, but simply adaptive. That means that the explanation of her phenotype and that of others who look like her, should first be sought in indigenous variation, rather than far fetched European migration. Ever heard of Ockhams Razor? [IMG]http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/images/AinuCouple.jpg[/IMG] East Asia is more than capable of producing such types. [/qb][/QUOTE]This is true; [i]however[/i] in the case of the Tarim Basin mummies, they may very well be of recent European descent. I suggest you look up the Tocharians and a people the Chinese called Yue-chi. They definitely weren't aboriginal to the region though as they've only entered there in the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C. and represent the farthest east Indo-European speakers have traveled. [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't have beef with potential Europeans in China, what I have beef with is that people insist that a given phenotype is the result of something inherent and deep seated in a given population, and all the mess one might get as a result, eg invoking external geneflow when seemingly odd finds are made, without first looking for indigenous examples from that region. They already did it in Africa, now they're doing it (again) in Asia? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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