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The logic is circular, since in most cases archeologists did not test the genetics of the bodies they found and assumed that if one was found with a sword, it must be male. They made the same mistake with Scythian finds, but subsequent DNA testing showed that a small percentage of those...

There was no cultural discontinuity between Hallstatt and La Tene. Scholars have agreed on a specific date after which the culture was to be referred to as La Tene rather than Halstatt, and the separate name was applied to the period when the culture expanded westward and also came under the...

I don't think you're going to find any linguists who agree with most of your ideas. Turkish belongs to the Altaic language group, which is very different from the Indo-European language group, and any IE words that are part of modern Turkish languages are simply borrowings, although it is true...

I've always believed that crop farming must have started in fertile river valleys that had enough fish and wild edible plants to allow people to live in one spot for several generations. When their population started to outgrow the resources, they tried to augment the plant harvest by...

I can remember a time before size zero was invented and models weren't as skinny as they are now, but they were still thinner and taller than the average woman. And owners of high fashion businesses admitted that their models were thinner and taller than the average woman, and said it was...

Although there are slightly fewer than 14 million people in Ontario, there are actually one or two that I've never met and dozens who I don't know well. As far as I know, I've never actually met Power77 and have no idea who he is. But he seems to have fairly reasonable opinions so I saw no...

Are you saying that it would have been impossible for Subsaharan Africans to become darker than their ancestors? I've noticed that while one sees a variety of skin shades among Mediterranean Caucasians, they are, on average, darker than northern Europeans in a way that doesn't seem to be...

Whose theory? Name me one geneticist who agrees with such nonsense. Subsaharan Africans evolved in Subsaharan Africa. And, as has already been explained to you repeatedly, Subsaharan Africans with Y haplotype R1b represent Caucasian pastoralists who back migrated into Africa and intermarried...

And, with the exception of a few small "Negrito" populations, Australoids do not "possess the suite of typical Negroid physical characteristics". Nor do they have the typical "Negroid" Y DNA types (A, B and E, although E can also be Caucasian). Why are you not able to grasp these basic concepts?

You won't find Y haplotype C in Sub-Saharan Africa in any measurable amounts because it isn't associated with the Negroid type. For a (very) basic understanding of Y DNA, please visit this website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup

I think I now understand what people in the northeastern U.S. are referring to when they talk about someone having "a southern education".

You seem to have difficulty understanding what I said. Yes, all races originate from early modern humans who lived in Africa, but that does not mean that the current populations that physical anthropologists refer to as Negroid existed when the first modern humans left Africa. Nor does it mean...

The whole point of your theory is an idea that any physical anthropologist will tell you is incorrect. It is not true that all races started off as Negroid. All races started off as early humans, with a variety of physical types and gradually evolved into the four main racial types. Your...

Melancon, if you are a professional forensic anthropologist, why did you not know that forensic anthropologists use four main racial classifications? You stated that the Australoid type is a division of the Negroid type, which is not correct. And you seemed to think that skin colour is a...

No. I realize that if one relies on certain Wikipedia entries, one would think that the Australoid physical type is a subdivision of the Negroid type, but any physical anthropologist would tell you that is incorrect. Australoids are considered to be one of the four major racial types. They...

I find the red pigment to be interesting. Red ochre has been found on the bones of Neanderthals. Archeologists have speculated that it could be some means of suggesting that the person still lives in some kind of afterlife. We will never know what thoughts ancient people had about the...

That's okay. I don't take anything you say seriously anyway. While it's true that the analysis that Maju provided on such a serious and complex issue was both inflammatory and simplistic, your response does seem to me to support the idea that racism in America is so engrained that many people...

I think you meant "your" rather than "you're". And I see no sarcasm or insults in what I write.

The U.S. is in fact a two party system that is controlled by the rich, rather than being a multiparty democracy, which may explain why the U.S. has the most income inequity and the second least social mobility in the developed world. And the income inequity and lack of social mobility in the...

I have no idea what you mean when you say "Not all science is evolution". It's true that some of modern science is about things other than evolutionary biology. Some of it is about cosmology or biogenesis, for example. But these processes are consistent with the idea of a world in which, once...