Out of Africa, Not Once But Twice


	Out of Africa, Not Once But Twice

invictus

3-15-2008 6:36 PM

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anthropology, humans, migration, africa, neanderthal, prehistory, science

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3-18-2008 5:04 AM

syncopath

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
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