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To: Jim 0216
Wasn't the "Neanderthal Man" was found to be a fraud decades ago?

That was an American fossil whose name escapes me. The Neanderthal was a very advanced, extinct ape, the most advanced member of the same family as chimps and gorillas, his DNA generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. The genetic gulf was far too wide for us to be descended from the Neanderthal and that also rules out all other hominids as plausible human ancestors since they were all FURTHER removed from us THAN the Neanderthal.

There has never been anything on this Earth which modern man could be descended from and the theory of evolution is basically a bunch of bullshit.

21 posted on 11/09/2010 6:52:04 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
That was an American fossil whose name escapes me. The Neanderthal was a very advanced, extinct ape, the most advanced member of the same family as chimps and gorillas, his DNA generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. The genetic gulf was far too wide for us to be descended from the Neanderthal and that also rules out all other hominids as plausible human ancestors since they were all FURTHER removed from us THAN the Neanderthal.

I take it that you didn't study anthropology in college?

30 posted on 11/09/2010 8:51:22 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: wendy1946
Now hold on there.

Neanderthal Mitochondrial DNA is found in about 12% of Europeans today.

We interbred.

31 posted on 11/09/2010 9:00:15 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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