User talk:Mutt

Welcome

I see you've been around for a long time but noone saw you yet. So I am welcoming you here :-) --Tone 15:15, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Fu Hao

Sorry about that revert, I saw the missing text on my watchlist and assumed the worst. That said, I don't think there's enough detail to warrant to separate articles on Fu Hao (One for her and one for her tomb). However, if you do insist on having two separate articles, I would recommend a paragraph summary about the tomb on the Fu Hao article with a "for the full article see Tomb of Fu Hao" lede at the beginning. Very interesting additions, by the way, how scholarly are they? Elijahmeeks 21:10, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

After sleeping on it, I think you're right, because the tomb of Fu Hao is such an important archaeological find. I've got a stack of Sandai period scholarly texts that I'll dig through and see what more information I can find. Elijahmeeks 19:15, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Looking for high resolution Zhoukoudian photograph

Dear Mutt,

We are preparing an exhibit on Zhoukoudian here at the university and love your photograph of Upper Cave with the mountains in the background. Although your photo is quite large, for a 1.8m x 1.5m enlargement we would need an even larger image. Would you be able to send us the photograph in the highest resolution possible please? You can find me on www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology staff list.

Thanks, Isabelle Microcebus (talk) 12:36, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

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Scientific support for Multi-Regional Theory of Human Evolution & the independent evolution of the Chinese from Homo Erectus

Dear Mutt,

Thank you for your good faith edits!

It is tempting to simply dismiss the new peer reviewed scientific evidence that contradicts the previously accepted "out of Africa" theory of human evolution where, supposedly, all humans were descended from the same group of Homo Sapien ancestors and which subsequently gives "strong support" in favor of an independent East Asian origin of a separate archaic branch or separate species of humans, the modern day Chinese people. But unfortunately, the reality of human evolution during the past 4 billions of life on our planet Earth is not as clear cut as the "out of Africa" theory attempts to address it. The "out of Africa" theory tries to say that "ALL" humans are descended from the same group of anatomically modern "Cro Magnon" or Homo Sapien Sapiens and while some of the older previous studies did initially seem to support that theory, those studies were not all inclusive and did not test many aspects of human genetics and evolution. But within the last few years, new genetic evidence has been discovered as a result of numerous scientific studies that have been conducted which lend a strong support for the theory that the modern Chinese people, or conservatively, a subpopulation of the Chinese gene pool are descended NOT from anatomically modern African Homo Sapiens like other humans on Earth, but rather that they are the product of a separate evolutionary lineage going back at least 1.8 million - 2 million years ago to Homo Erectus in East Asia. And that the modern Chinese people today are not necessarily classified as "Homo Sapien," but more accurately they could be classified as a highly evolved anatomically modern form of Homo Erectus. You must remember that regardless of whether we are talking about Homo Neanderthalensis or Homo Erectus that we are talking about human beings. And even though they are a classified as a separate species of human beings, nothing can take away their "humanity," for if one of them were dressed up in a modern day suit, they would still be recognized as "humans."

I am a scientist and I would like to introduce to you the peer reviewed scientific evidence supporting a separate independent evolution of the modern Chinese people from an archaic species of Homo Erectus.

Please watch these links:

1.) Scientific evidence from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2.) All Non Africans Living Today Are Part Neanderthal
3.) New evidence that Neanderthals interbred with Humans

Adding further support to the Multi-regional theory of human evolution are the recent DNA discoveries that anatomically modern African Homo Sapiens interbred with Homo Neanderthalensis or the Neanderthal man, in direct contradiction to the thesis of the "out of Africa" theory which specifically states that Homo Sapien did not interbred with Homo Neanderthalensis and that the Neanderthal simply "went extinct." Which has now been shown in peer reviewed scientific studies to be untrue, and that the Homo Sapien and Homo Neanderthalensis did indeed interbreed with each other. These studies are additionally supported by previous archaeological finds that show skeletons of humans who show hybrid morphological and anatomical traits of both species of humans, both Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis.

Please read the following evidence:

1.) NewScientist Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans
2.) Archaic admixture in the human genome, Neanderthal genes in modern humans
3.) Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans
4.) Discovery News "Neanderthals, Humans Interbred, DNA Proves"
5.) USA Today Neanderthals and humans interbred, fossils indicate
6.) BBC "Neanderthals 'mated with modern humans'"
7.) Official report Neanderthal/Homo Sapien interbred
8.) Cosmos Humans and Neanderthals interbred, according to our anatomy
9.) Neanderthals live on in DNA of humans

Below I have provided the results of scientific DNA studies that provide strong irrefutable support for an independent origin of the Chinese from Homo Erectus. These scientific studies have both been published in peer reviewed scientific journals and are well received by the scientific community. Please take some time to read them and feel free to ask me any questions regarding human evolution.

1.)Genetics Society of America's Genetics Journal, "Testing for Archaic Hominin Admixture on the X Chromosome: Model Likelihoods for the Modern Human RRM2P4 Region From Summaries of Genealogical Topology Under the Structured Coalescent" by Murray P. Cox, Fernando L. Mendez, Tatiana M. Karafet, Maya Metni Pilkington, Sarah B. Kingan, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Beverly I. Strassmann and Michael F. Hammer.

2.)Oxford University's Oxford Journals, Evidence for Archaic Asian Ancestry on the Human X Chromosome by Daniel Garrigan, Zahra Mobasher, Tesa Severson, Jason A. Wilder and Michael F. Hammer

Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.68.251.209 (talk) 03:46, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Films

Hi Mutt! Thank you for creating all of these Turkish film articles. It is definitely an area of expertise I don't have. Would it be possible to add the date or even the month of the first airing of the film into the infobox with {{Film date}}? If you just put the year, than the film will be put in the category of upcoming films, which could be misleading. Thanks! BOVINEBOY2008 10:09, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

I second Bovineboy's thanks on creating so many Turkish related film articles. I love the work on the film festivals. I've linked all the blue-linked films on this article back to the film festival, and cited what awards they've won. If you have any questions, please ask at the film project talkpage. Thanks again and have a great 2011. Lugnuts (talk) 11:39, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Old movie screenshots

Hi, thanks for your work on those old movies. Just FYI, check out the way I re-tagged your image here. You might want to do the same for some of the others you have uploaded. As they are apparently old enough to be in the public domain, we don't need to bother about declaring them non-free. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:10, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

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