Faye really needs to date more.
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
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Biologist Alan Templeton of Washington University St. Louis has found hints that some people of European ancestry carry genes that emerged in Europe more than 300,000 years ago - far before our main ancestors left Africa. There's some speculation that genes associated with light skin and red hair first arose in Neanderthals, for example.
IIRC - it's how "french" happened.
Where's the picture of Mr. Neadert(h)al? I want to judge for myself.
Faye really needs to date more.
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves!
This comment, which I think is naive, assumes the writer would have a choice about having sex with him. While I'm not aware of any real evidence either way, I'm intuitively convinced that in those days (as the saying used to go): "Seduction is for sissies; a he-man likes his rape." I think there was a good deal of truth to the old Alley Oop cliche of dragging women around by the hair.
I'm not arguing it was a proper way to behave and maybe I'm wrong about it. But the male sex drive is very powerful, as is the evolutionary imperative for males to spread their seed as widely as possible. If that big guy decided he wanted to cuddle I doubt the writer would have much say in the matter.
I can't believe I've read 30 reply's and no photo of the insurance cave men yet.
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Seeing some of the women that drunk sailors (particularly those that have been at sea for a month or so) have picked up, the Neanderthal woman in the Smithsonian in Washington didn't look too bad in comparison, particularly if it was a cold night. Just my unstudied comment.
The dummy could get a fairly reasonable idea of what doing it with a neanderthal might be like by bribing some zookeeper to let her do it with a chimpanzee.
The novels The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World (by Doris Lessing) explore this and other topics related to the interaction between Neanderthals and modern man.
Funny keywords. LOL!