Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years

ABC NEWSonline ^ | Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST)

[thoughtomator]

Hell, we're sharing the earth with Neanderthals right now. Just ask any Israeli.

[msnimje]

As they are in New Orleans right this very moment.

[Last Dakotan]

Modern humans, opportunistic looters shared earth for 1,000 years.

[winner3000]

This does not augure well for the evolution theory. We keep seeing new species appearing seemingly out of nowhere instead of one specie evolving into another...

[theFIRMbss]

>New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals co-existed with anatomically modern humans for at least 1,000 years in central France

[Vive ut Vivas]

Neanderthal ping!

[VadeRetro]

The lack of Neanderthal DNA is in our mitochondia. This is not exactly definitive, as you can't use mtDNA to prove you're related to your own father. You get half your nuclear genes from your father, but all your mtDNA from your mother. If we ever got Neanderthal nuclear gene data, then we could tell for sure.

[Alouette]

Did you see the movie? (retitled "The 13th Horseman" starring Antonio Banderas)

What a premise: a "cultured, civilized, monotheistic" Muslim from Syria joins a band of "savage, barbaric, heathen" Vikings. LOL.

Antonio Banderas was really cool in that movie, though.

[Lucy Lake]

Ping.

[aworldtrader]

I didn't know Robert Byrd was that old....

[VadeRetro]

This does not augure well for the evolution theory. We keep seeing new species appearing seemingly out of nowhere instead of one specie evolving into another...

This is all just wrong. Nothing depends on humans being descended from Neanderthals. There is a minor question whether modern humans ever interbred with the cousin branch of Neanderthals, hardly the same thing.

And if you routinely see something called a new "specie" popping out from nowhere, you should stop drinking whatever you're drinking.

[muir_redwoods]

"This does not augure well for the evolution theory. We keep seeing new species appearing seemingly out of nowhere instead of one specie evolving into another..."

Neanderthal fossils were catalogued over 100 years ago. If you point is that because we did not evolve out of neanderthal then evolution is weakened, look at it this way. Canids (dogs, wolves etc) evolved from an earlier species but they did not necessarily evolve from one another linearly. Foxes and wolves may have been on separate branches but derived from the same roots. LIkewise Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalis, although doubtless related, they could simply have evolved from separate branches. Another analogy would be that you and your 3rd cousins are related but don't share the same parents or grandparents.

[Quix]

So what. There's a mad rush BACK TO THE ANCIENT PAST to live like knuckle dragging flea bags.

I hear it's fashionable again in New Orleans.

And, yes, in old Arafart's stomping grounds.

[guitarnick40]

Seems to me he neanderthals had a get together last year in Boston...

[squarebarb]

Wasn't it the 11th warrior?

Cool movie. The horses were the best!

[John Jamieson]

Also known as the 1000 year war. Liberals just don't understand that we wiped out anything we saw as competition. War is the most powerful of all evolutionary forces and what made us what we are today. The truth sometimes hurts.

[Raycpa]

No cross breeding makes no sense. People today copulate with 4 legged animals. There had to be some cross over.