Ellis,
Thanks so much for listening. I'm sorry to have dredged it up, with so much very exciting (and wonderous) wink stuff to spend time on.

rede,
About the 110,000 dates in China. Modern humans came out of Africa (possibly continuously) during that period, but the thought is that they were wiped out; and only the groups that came out after 70,000 yr ago went on to spread and survive.

Roughly,
-gotta go watch Daily show..

Cool stuff though.
Thanks,
~Samwik smile

Pyrolysis creates reduced carbon! ...Time for the next step in our evolutionary symbiosis with fire.