Re: Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia

On 7/5/25 1:09 AM, Primum Sapienti wrote:

The reasoning behind the finding is that modern
humans didn't mate with Neanderthals until around
50,000 years ago, but Indigenous Australians have a
small percentage of Neanderthal DNA.

This is insane.
It literally can't see any model aside from a ready
population pulling up stakes, marching to Australia
and then settling down.
Which is dumb.
https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-and-modern-humans-made-babies-47-000-years-ago
Oops.
Paleo anthropology is not a real science, or it's
to science what biblical archaeology is to archaeology.
There's no profit in it, there's no national security
applications so it's fair game for any agenda that can
control the purse strings...
"Grant money" isn't free. You have to please the people
"Granting" the grants.
YOU KNEW HOW POLITICAL IT WAS when Bush was President.
You just all agreed to "Forget" once Bush was gone...
Remember? The creationists? People were actually fearful
of doing work relating to evolution?
Hello? "A Flock of DoDos?" The documentary?
Anyway, you once knew that science was politics, that it
ran on grants and the grant money was controlled by
political people with agendas.
That never changed. You did.
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