I noticed a pro-AAT comment at the Smithsonian website. I don't recognize
the name, but in addition to AAT, the writer supports another concept I am
glad to see catching on:

In comments about the Pinnacle Point site:

"Ah, those pesky shellfish. It seems that as far back as we can go, we find
humans eating shellfish. The field ponders the question of precisely when
humans began eating shellfish and what the effect of that was upon our
population. Perhaps this is the time to look again at Occam's Razor. Occam's
Razor says the simplest explanation is that we've always eaten shellfish,
that it's what separates us from the other primates...

...Some further ponderables: evolution only happens where possible, not
where necessary; which is a polite way of saying that a species cannot
evolve its way out of an ecological crisis....

...Cheers. See you at the beach, Johan...Posted by Johan Mathiesen on June
25,2008 | 09:07PM"

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/human-migration.html?c=y&p
age=3

It does my heart good.

Michael Burns