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The ones I mention are all very costly. The difference is what use people have in them. You might like to drive your car on a road, where others might like to eat.

With the Solutrean sites mostly underwater, in what were coastal areas during the last ice age, it is quite costly to do proper archaeological excavation. The evidence does seem to suggest there were early Europeans in North America during the ice age, but it is not clear if they ever met up with the Asians that eventually settled the continent. They could have been a few small transitory communities that died out.

The colonizers are now crying and wanting to rip up the treaties signed many generations ago, saying they no longer apply in the modern world. Comedy gold.

Etobicoke, not Toronto proper. When I first moved to the GTA I lived in Etobicoke for 3 months and then quickly moved out. Note the Etobicoke also produced the Ford brothers.

I thought the genetic linage (mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome) is traced back to central Africa. Mitochondrial DNA near Lake Tanganyika, and Y chromosome on the west coast near Cameroon. There is a very interesting chart on Y chromosome dispersal and possible migration routes. There is a less detailed and more localized view for mitochondrial dispersion, I believe that outside these areas there is not enough distinction in modern man to suggest routes. It is interesting that Eve (mitochondrial DNA) and Adam (Y chromosome) probably never met. There are some proponents of the theory that early Homo sapiens cross bred with various Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis populations in different parts of the world, there is even the possibility with Homo rhodesiensis and Homo heidelbergensis. While most of the offspring were probably infertile, the few that did survive (linage) might have had sufficient cognitive superiority over their ancestors that they eventually became dominant. It would be interesting to see if we classify this gained dominance as natural selection or genocide. Note there is also Biblical evidence* to the multiple cross breeding theory: Genesis 6:4 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Numbers 13:33 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. Note that there were earlier subspecies like Homo sapiens idaltu that have since become extinct. The current surviving modern man is the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens. *evidence - I used this term to be consistent with betsy.

We will tie you up in the back yard, and feed you Kibbles.

Bring home our troops, stop subsidizing the oil industry, no more roads and ports, sell the airports for $100 billion each (if no takers, then shut them down), etc.

Men are from Mars Women are from Venus Harper is from Uranus

Some of us don't have to rely on bold red lettering, just reason.

Where did the archaeological evidence go? We are now a century later, and still none have been found to confirm Sapir's contention. Certainly the receding glaciers from the last ice age would have wiped much of it out in the north, but not all as we have many much older archaeological finds like the dinosaurs. Where would the people have gone during the ice age, and would there not be a melding of the diverse languages and cultures as these groups encountered each other along migration routes? The same factors that lowered linguistic diversification in the old world due to extensive trade routes would not necessarily apply to a nomadic population in the new world.

I usually can't comment here because I have about 3-6 total drinks a year, mostly wine. Beer is something I usually have on the road, but I picked up 4 bottles of Trois Pistoles Belgian style dark ale on sale the other day and downed one tonight. It's sweltering hot here tonight, and I had a bottle in the fridge. After 750ml of 9% ale I am probably not making sense. I'm not sure what makes this brewed in Quebec ale Belgian style, but it it has a nice subtle fruity sweetness with a bit of spice.

I think the only real controversy is the Monte Verde site. The main people to settle North & Central America were from Asia, most likely via an ice bridge although there is a remote possibility they came by boat along the coastline but still the same people.

Yes, you finally got one right. Science is about discovery, learning from the past and others and making corrections. That is what differentiates it from deluded fantasies. After your arguments about the correctness of "stretched", now you are reverting to the model of simplistic explanation for the age of understanding. I'll take fries with that.

Being a parent was relatively easy, I don't ever want to be a moderator.

Yes, it is a big place but migration routes generally are not. They generally follow natural features like mountain ranges and rivers. We should also expect to find fossil records of those diverse civilizations in the south where they would have resided for many centuries during the ice age. Depending on how far south they migrated, the central Americas are not very big.

God created a huge pallet of almost 300 naturally (Divinely) occurring amino acids, but picked only one (adenosine triphosphate - ATP) as the common unit for energy storage for the metabolism of all life. God created a huge pallet of over 100 naturally (Divinely) occurring nucleosides (and dozens of others man has been able to artificially synthesize), yet picked only four (deoxycytidine, deoxyguanosine, deoxyadenosine, and deoxythymidine) as the building blocks of all RNA & DNA. God bought the giant box of Crayola crayons, yet only used a couple in all his drawing. Ours is not to question the ways of God, and come up with theories of common descent. Our is just to accept the word of the scriptures. Deuteronomy 14:11-18 - Of all clean birds ye shall eat. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, And every raven after his kind, And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. ​and conveniently ignore that the bat is more closely related to wingless mammals, and that birds are more closely related to wingless dinosaurs

While an interesting theory, it does not address how the languages survived the ice age when the fossil evidence of that alleged civilization was wiped out by the receding glacier. If there was a massive migration southward during the ice age, and remigration northward after then can you explain how these diverse groups did not meet up and meld with each other?

Yes, the front and centre point made by the leave campaign, the one and only point emblazoned in huge lettering on the side of their campaign bus, was that leaving the EU would put £350 a week into the NHS. We found out, only a couple of hours after the leave side won from Nigel Farage leader of the UKIP that was a "mistake", in other words a big lie.

In other words, free trade to benefit the rich corporate bosses but nothing for the average Joe. That is not free trade, that is exploitation.

You're a vegetarian.

Another day, and still nothing. This is ask #5, please provide information on why one of those judges overlooked should have been selected over those that were (other than being white). I suggest looking at the #BeckyWithTheBadGrades thread over in Business & Economy, you might learn a thing or two.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for some science from Dr. Theobald.

The referendum means nothing, Parliament must negotiate the exit from the European Union. Who is going to do that? As I said earlier, the government will fall and UKIP will need to run on a platform of leaving the union because no other party will. Its not over until the fat lady sings.

No, the progressives are having a big laugh. Those that voted to leave are now blaming those who voted to remain for the result. You just can't have better comedy than this.

Don't forget Iraq, Palestine, TransJordon, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Aden (Yemen), Egypt, Nigeria, Gold Coast (Ghana), etc. Yup, them Brits sure did screw up the world.