Sorry samwik- What a comedy of errors. I apologise for having misjudged you, and I certainly don't expect to always have positive feedback. One good thing though, everyone seems to agree that scientists should be excited by their discoveries and in a time when young people are deserting science (at least in this country) for more instantly rewarding studies perhaps expressing that excitement more freely would inspire them in the future.
Re Homo Erectus.
There seems to be no serious suggestion that this species ever existed in Australia, so this absence would argue for the Out of Africa theory. There really does seem to be a problem with Mungo Man and the date of at least 40,000 years attached to his discovery. So is H.E necessarily the only possible source for the development of modern humans? Could the Aborigine have evolved from a different source and/or then moved here?
Mungo's bones have really mucked up a neat hypothesis.
