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the HERALD Wednesday January 1992 Arts and Ideas Lets create a stable world home to everyone By JOHN Herald Special The late genetic scientist Allan Wilson of Berkeley and his disciples there have given themselves the task to find Eve the mother of us all They put for ward the proposal that this legen dary woman and her tribe lived about 15000 years ago in Africa Is this science Yes it is The mitochondrial cell in hentance DNA is inherited from the mother The more the of different people is alike the closer they are related Following this lead a family tree for man at last a possibility This complicated research of a group of scientists too complicated to explain in a short column can boast of some interesting results already For instance We know that about years ago human tribes from Africa moved out of Africa into Central Asia and beyond About years ago tribes from SouthEast Asia moved to Australia About years ago tribes from Central Asia moved into Europe And finally about 30000 years ago Asian tribes wandered over a still existing land bridge Unking Asia to North America to settle the Americas An additional help in the research that established these tribal movements all over the globe were the many languages that ex ist and have existed and the tionship of these languages to each other This year years ago on Oc Columbus discovered America He thought the world smaller than it really is and was convlnc ed he had landed on the coast of India Other voyagers had landed here before him We know now that sailors from Iceland and Greenland came to Labrador and other points in North America long before Columbus However the impact of these early land falls on the voyagers as well as the native North Americans they encountered was minimal Col voyages he sailed more than once to the Americas by comparison affected the country he came from Spain and the native inhabitants he en countered and called Indians in a traumatic way One can say the people who had parted from each other 100000 yean before to move in different directions one group to the East and the other group to the West came together again without knowing they were of the same ancient stock The rift bet ween the Spaniards who believed to have God on their side and these astonished children of nature was unbridgeable Here is Columbus description of the fateful encounter I saw two or three villages and their people came down to the beach calling to us and offering thanks to God Some brought us water others food and still others jumped in the sea and swam out to us Many men and women came each br lnging a gift and offering thanks to God They threw themselves on the ground and pointing at the sky called us ashore Having been welcomed by the people of the Cambean as a celestial messenger what did Columbus do He wrote to the King and Queen of Spain his sponsors Should your Ma jesties command it all the in habitants could be taken away to Castile or made slaves on the island With 50 men we could sub jugate them all and make them do whatever we want What Columbus wanted from them was gold Little gold trinkets they wore made him think there were mines of untold riches somewhere But the only gold on the islands was in the nvers and the most ardent sif ting resulted in small amounts only The Spaniards did not sail to the Americas for the sake of knowledge or to settle there They hoped to plunder and return home Spaniards of this class Hidalgos had a contempt for manual labor In the midst of the STEAK EXPRESS ADDRESS PHONE NO PERM SPECIAL All Perms including Spirals GET YOUR FIRST CUT FREE Valid for Merna only Offer Expires Feb 15 1992 126 Mill St Georgetown 8778097 fertile landscape of the Bahamas they were not able nor willing to grow any food or use the teeming natural life around them Everywhere they went in Central and South America they avidly searched for gold oblivious to the fabulous cultures they found The story of the native people that came under their rule is a sad tale The first the as they called themselves were within a few years decimated by slavery and the gun Twenty five years later the en tire Arawak nation unable to live under the stress of subjugation had vanished from the earth To replace them hardy black slaves from Africa where the human enterprise had started 150000 before got shipped to the New World and history took its course And yet knowing what we have found out through research about ourselves can we not leam from if Can we not teach ourselves to respect what is foreign and to nurture the many positive traits that Eve passed on the her children Should we not try to create a stable world that is home to us YOU PAY WHEN YOU PURCHASE ANY ONE OF THESE SPECIALS ENGINE TUNEUP Check Spark Plugs Distributor Cap and rotor H T Wires all filters emission set to specs PARTS EXTRA IF NEEDED COOLING SYSTEM WINTER IS HERE Includes drain flush of cooling system Inspect all belts hoses Refilr system up to 8 litres of antifreeze WINTER WIPERBLADES 1 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