From: Glen Gordon
Message: 2775
Date: 2000-07-07
> By contrast, there is no evidence of abnormally low genetic >diversityMark O:
>for humans. I think it's highly likely that the total >population of early
>anatomically modern Homo sapiens was fully >sustainable (that is, rather
>large) at any time; and if so, then given >the size of primitive social
>units, it was simply too large to support >just one language community.
>The concept of 'proto-World' is not improbable, though it might >possiblyWell, I guess we're all in agreement. I have this same explanation of human
>be better called 'neo-proto-World' in that language may have >been
>invented before this genetic bottleneck, and only one branch >survived.