4) But the whole show is still coded for by DNA, and Wilson's insights that studying DNA can inform our understanding of our evolutionary past remain perfectly valid.
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Sorry, .... " deracinated cosmopolitan".
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"Cavalli-Sforza had published a paper with Doug Wallace saying that Asia is the origin. Other people, like Wolpoff in Michigan, were arguing that the mitochondrial trees couldn't possibly ever be right, ...."
...... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877732/
I'm a "deracinated cosmopolitan" because this is one of the many insults hurled at people like me by Brexit supporters - an insult that says more about the insulters than the insulted.
Your link simply tells a story of how the science has been refined, revised, and argued about over the years. That's how science works. And this continues. We glean new insights into human evolution all the time from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA as techniques improve and new samples are discovered.
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"Cavalli-Sforza had published a paper with Doug Wallace saying that Asia is the origin. Other people, like Wolpoff in Michigan, were arguing that the mitochondrial trees couldn't possibly ever be right, ...."
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877732/
I'm a "deracinated cosmopolitan" because this is one of the many insults hurled at people like me by Brexit supporters - an insult that says more about the insulters than the insulted.