Alas, poor Bo

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A few months ago I blogged about the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, who were cut off from the rest of humanity 50,000-65,000 years ago and thus have a lot to teach us about human prehistory.

CNN is now reporting that one of the 10 Great Andamanese tribes, the Bo, became extinct last week when its last member died. She was also the

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[anonymous]

How sad. This is the story of so many indigenous peoples. And the invaders (us?) felt superior!
"The evil that we do lives after us."
It's like the life of "Ishi: the last of his tribe"

[materjibrail]

Sorry. That was me.

[y_pestis]

So. The Face of Bo has died.

Sad but I couldn't resist.

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*sigh*.