Hi, I meant to answer this bit before, but hit the Enter key too early:
>> I don't know about Lucy (may be mixed up there) but he definately >> said remains of H.R. were found in South Asia dating to 2.5 mya. >> Does not seem to be any major disputes about that. On the contrary. Rudgeley reports somebody else making this claim. If there are no major disputes about it, it's because nobody believes it. This claim, and the other claim about America and Argentina, are in a chapter called "Dawn Stones or False Dawn". The chapter is about controversies from long ago. The India claim is about supposed tools dated to about 2mya. This is long before the accepted date of the evolution of Homo Erectus/Ergaster, who is thought to have been the first hominid out of Africa. If they are tools then they must have been made by another type of hominid, but there is no other evidence. The consensus seems to be that most of the supposed artefacts are naturally occuring pieces of stone. Those that are accepted as artefacts have been dated at 0.5mya, which is within the accepted time period for Erectus in India. -- Cheers, Bob
