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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by kdolo: [qb] Is Montellano A. stupid or B. Insane ? [/qb][/QUOTE]Neither- doing what responsible scholars do. Report the state of the literature as up-to-date as possible, and give both sides until one is proven to be correct. The "Eve" hypothesis was being strongly contested at the time as new data should be tested and replicated in science. Although, [b]now[/b] the "mitochondrial Eve' in Africa is well accepted, [b]when I was writing the paper[/b], Stoneking, one of the authors of the Eve paper, admitted that they had made a mistake in their procedure (Hedges 1992). A whole issue of a journal in March 1993 was going to be devoted to this controversy. Here's what I wrote on p. 52 [QUOTE]No one denies that hominids originated in Africa. Recently a vigorous controversy on the question of a single versus a multiple origin for modern humans has occurred. Defenders of a multiple origin claim that Homo erectus led to modern humans in several areas (Thorne and Wolpoff, 1992). Based on the analysis of variation in mitochondrial DNA it has been proposed that all modern humans descend from a female in Africa, the mitochondrial African Eve, about 200,000 years ago (Cann et al., 1987). Melanists have seized upon this proposal of an African Eve as confirmation of their beliefs (King, 1991b; Adams, 1990:7).1° Recent publications have, however, cast serious doubts on the validity of the mitochondrial Eve hypothesis, and one of the original authors has admitted that the analysis procedure in the original paper was in error (Hedges et al., 1992; Gibbons, 1992).[/QUOTE]The papers cited are: Gibbons A (1992) Mitochondria1 Eve: Wounded but not dead yet. [b]Science[/b] 257:873-875. Hedges SB, Kumar S, Tamura K, and Stoneking M (1992) Human origins and analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences.[b] Science[/b] 255:737-739. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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