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erronis

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11. To be fair, we don't know who were the first "human" americans.
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 06:48 PM
Jan 2018

We keep finding new evidence of earlier and earlier encounters between groups of humans traveling from the east (Europe/Africa) and the west (Bering land bridge and Polynesian ocean crossings.) Let alone those times when the land masses were much more in touch such as Europe/North America and Africa/South America.

I think we need to stop saying "Who's on first?" because that also leads to the thread of "We are here before you." When you break this down into the various ethnic/language/tribal/familial groups you end up with the current, and perhaps inevitable, contention and violence.

I'd like to be able to look at "Who could figure out how to share/cohabitate?" Who has succeeded in contentious times? Which bloodlines (bad word) are the most amenable to getting along? Which are not? We know from the great apes that some species are much more forgiving and others act like repuglicans.

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