Thursday, July 13, 2006

We are all Taiwanese

Trapped by the tropical storm, it's blogging day. Erick Heroux pointed me to this article from AP on human origins...

Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia — Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He — or she — did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children and die.

Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth — the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today.

Definitely way cool....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

michael:
pro green doesn't mean you have to pro chen shui bian. Don't you have any decency left inside you?

Michael Turton said...

What specifically makes you think I am "pro-Chen?" Citations, please.

Michael

Anonymous said...

then if ur not pro-chen, what are u then?

Anonymous said...

by the way, "citation please". (from the previous poster)