From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Sun Apr 8 17:36:41 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:36:41 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> NEW YORK TIMES April 8, 2001 On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Fossils of what may be the earliest known ancestor of the human family have been unearthed in Kenya. The bones and teeth are about 6 million years old, at least 1.5 million years earlier than any similar finds, and so their discovery could be a major advance shaking up the human family tree yet again. They are already shaking up the family of paleontologists. As details emerged in recent weeks, the age of the fossils was the only aspect that seemed beyond dispute. To assertions by the discoverers that the individual mostly walked upright and was a direct ancestor of modern humans, many prominent scientists have reacted with head- shaking skepticism bordering on disbelief. Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/science/08DESI.html ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Sun Apr 8 17:37:03 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:37:03 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] Early Brazilians Unveil African Look] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> SCIENCE NEWS ONLINE Week of April 7, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 14 Early Brazilians Unveil African Look Bruce Bower The stormy scientific debate over the origins of the first Americans has taken a surprising geographic turn. Human skulls unearthed in Brazil and ranging in age from about 8,000 to 11,000 years look more like modern Africans and Australian aborigines than like modern Asians or Native Americans, according to a report presented in Kansas City at last week's annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. This finding contradicts the influential theory that Asians were the first to cross the now submerged Bering land bridge to North America around 12,000 years ago, says Walter A. Neves of the University of São Paulo. Instead, African migrants actually may have been the first to take this northern route into the Americas, theorizes Neves, who directed the Brazilian excavation and fossil analysis. At least 45,000 years ago, he adds, migrating Africans reached Australia via a southern route. The exact timing of population movements that brought Africans to what is now South America remains unknown, the Brazilian scientist says Full text: http://www.sciencenews.org/20010407/fob1.asp ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Thu Apr 19 15:30:17 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:30:17 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] 'Redheads are Neanderthals'] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> NEWS 24 17/04/2001 08:36 - (SA) 'Redheads are Neanderthals' London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years old. They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000 years ago. Rosalind Harding, the research team leader, told The Times: "The gene is certainly older than 50 000 years and it could be as old as 100 000 years. "An explanation is that it comes from Neanderthals." It is estimated that at least 10 percent of Scots have red hair and a further 40 percent carry the gene responsible, which could account for their once fearsome reputation as fighters. Full text: http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,46_1011323,00.html To view archive/subscribe/unsubscribe/select DIGEST go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evolutionary-psychology Read The Human Nature Daily Review every day http://human-nature.com/nibbs Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Mon Apr 30 03:00:20 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:00:20 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: bez, bUz, burush] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: bez, bUz, burush Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:57:50 -0400 From: "H. Mark Hubey" To: NEA It is said that the change in Turkic languages goes from z > r because of one word. The word is Common Turkic bez and Chuvash pir. These allegedly both come from Arabic bazz and ultimately from Greek byssos. However, the word for wrinkling in Turkish is burush. I think this has to be taken into consideration, and I think that as in other such pairs such as yUz/yUrU, and kOr/kOz, this is related to bUz. The word bez was bOz in Kuman/Kipchak. Ultimately, the root may go back to the Middle East, and might be of the r-form, and could have gotten into Greek. These sound changes seem to occur across a large geographical region. What do others think? -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Sun Apr 8 17:36:41 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:36:41 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> NEW YORK TIMES April 8, 2001 On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Fossils of what may be the earliest known ancestor of the human family have been unearthed in Kenya. The bones and teeth are about 6 million years old, at least 1.5 million years earlier than any similar finds, and so their discovery could be a major advance shaking up the human family tree yet again. They are already shaking up the family of paleontologists. As details emerged in recent weeks, the age of the fossils was the only aspect that seemed beyond dispute. To assertions by the discoverers that the individual mostly walked upright and was a direct ancestor of modern humans, many prominent scientists have reacted with head- shaking skepticism bordering on disbelief. Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/science/08DESI.html ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Sun Apr 8 17:37:03 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:37:03 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] Early Brazilians Unveil African Look] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> SCIENCE NEWS ONLINE Week of April 7, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 14 Early Brazilians Unveil African Look Bruce Bower The stormy scientific debate over the origins of the first Americans has taken a surprising geographic turn. Human skulls unearthed in Brazil and ranging in age from about 8,000 to 11,000 years look more like modern Africans and Australian aborigines than like modern Asians or Native Americans, according to a report presented in Kansas City at last week's annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. This finding contradicts the influential theory that Asians were the first to cross the now submerged Bering land bridge to North America around 12,000 years ago, says Walter A. Neves of the University of S?o Paulo. Instead, African migrants actually may have been the first to take this northern route into the Americas, theorizes Neves, who directed the Brazilian excavation and fossil analysis. At least 45,000 years ago, he adds, migrating Africans reached Australia via a southern route. The exact timing of population movements that brought Africans to what is now South America remains unknown, the Brazilian scientist says Full text: http://www.sciencenews.org/20010407/fob1.asp ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Thu Apr 19 15:30:17 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:30:17 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] 'Redheads are Neanderthals'] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> NEWS 24 17/04/2001 08:36 - (SA) 'Redheads are Neanderthals' London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years old. They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000 years ago. Rosalind Harding, the research team leader, told The Times: "The gene is certainly older than 50 000 years and it could be as old as 100 000 years. "An explanation is that it comes from Neanderthals." It is estimated that at least 10 percent of Scots have red hair and a further 40 percent carry the gene responsible, which could account for their once fearsome reputation as fighters. Full text: http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,46_1011323,00.html To view archive/subscribe/unsubscribe/select DIGEST go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evolutionary-psychology Read The Human Nature Daily Review every day http://human-nature.com/nibbs Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu Mon Apr 30 03:00:20 2001 From: HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu (H. Mark Hubey) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:00:20 -0400 Subject: [language] [Fwd: bez, bUz, burush] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: bez, bUz, burush Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:57:50 -0400 From: "H. Mark Hubey" To: NEA It is said that the change in Turkic languages goes from z > r because of one word. The word is Common Turkic bez and Chuvash pir. These allegedly both come from Arabic bazz and ultimately from Greek byssos. However, the word for wrinkling in Turkish is burush. I think this has to be taken into consideration, and I think that as in other such pairs such as yUz/yUrU, and kOr/kOz, this is related to bUz. The word bez was bOz in Kuman/Kipchak. Ultimately, the root may go back to the Middle East, and might be of the r-form, and could have gotten into Greek. These sound changes seem to occur across a large geographical region. What do others think? -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu