[muawiyah]

I've been watching this development closely. It looks like the researchers have pretty much dispelled the idea that the Neanderthals were a seperate species ~ 'cause they're no more different from folks than the differences found among my neighbors, including me ~ and that's gotta' be toward the maximum end of things since we have people from the entire world here.

A Neanderthal could probably move in, settle down, and no one would notice ~ except for his wife's four breasts and his bulbous skull ~ but I guarantee no one here would say a thing! Well, maybe a comment about "My word is that guy big ~ 700 pounds?!"

I think this business of having a genetically driven "square" heart is something that must have arisen in the depths of the Ice Age when people were not as well dressed as they are today ~ and no central heat either.

Oh, yeah, he'd no doubt drive only SUVs. We got a lot of those guys!

[blam]

After the 'mixing' occurred, the people with the modern bodies and the big brains of the Neanderthals survived...Well...that's us.

All the attributes that is used to describe Neanderthals can be found scattered throughout the human population today. For example, (I've read) some of the Australian Aboriginies have brow ridges that even exceeds that of the Neanderthals.