[Oberon]

"The study enabled us to verify that the Neanderthals evolved these features independently of homo sapiens," said Florence University's David Caramelli, who led the Italian part of the research.

"We can therefore rule out any possible interbreeding between the two species," he said.

Poor fellow. His evidence doesn't support his conclusion.

[ApplegateRanch]

Poor fellow. His evidence doesn't support his conclusion.

Considering sheep, goats, camels, horses, cows, dogs, chickens?!?, vacuum cleaners, and at least one case of a penguin, these guys are shading the truth.

Just because this batch of bones didn't show mixed genes doesn't mean that there was a whole lot of 'breeding' going on.

(I once even had one guy come into the ER with a 'penile fracture' caused by attempting to 'breed' with a knothole in a fence board!)