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To: edwin hubble; Coyoteman
I believe there is one species of humans and we can/could all interbreed, we are Neanderthals and any differences in humans today (as in the past) are due to regional variations.
Modern humans are differentiated from Neanderthals, Homo-Erectus and other 'archaic' humans by physical measurements of their bodily features.
Now, if we say that everyone alive today is a Modern Human, that presents a problem. If we measure the features of all humans alive on the earth today, the range of features easily include Neanderthals, Homo-Erectus and even some 'Archaic' humans...The differences are regional.

Some of the Australian Aboriginies have brow ridges that are more 'severe' that the Neanderthals, yet we call them moderns but, not so Neanderthals.

I think Wolpoff, Sharpe and Hu (the Multiregionalist) have it correct, we are all one with regional differences

Journey Of Mankind (Modern Humans)

20 posted on 01/16/2006 4:39:40 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

I know of no modern humans with the bone density of Neanderthals. Look at some of their femur bones in cross section.


34 posted on 01/17/2006 9:55:26 AM PST by Renfield (If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
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To: blam
Now, if we say that everyone alive today is a Modern Human, that presents a problem. If we measure the features of all humans alive on the earth today, the range of features easily include Neanderthals

Easily.

Nikolai Valuev

42 posted on 07/09/2016 12:47:45 PM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Blam — you are correct about the one species. If Cro-magnon and Neanderthal could produce fertile offspring, then biologically they are the same species.


53 posted on 12/09/2016 1:33:30 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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