From: <rmccalli@...>
To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nostratica] [Fwd: [evol-psych] Agriculture's roots get a South
Pacific twist]

>
> This is not exactly breaking news, I read about it a few months back

either

> in New Scientist or Scientific American. New Guinea also developed yams
> around the same time. Like Amazonia, New Guinea seems to have developed a
> very basic form of agriculture that didn't require a sophisticated
> infrastructure and stayed with it.

And I don't see what it's got to do with Nostratic!

Richard.