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Love with a Neanderthal? It could have happened
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel ^ | Thursday, August 3, 2006 | Faye Flam

Posted on 08/03/2006 8:28:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The question of sex with Neanderthals speaks to our understanding of ourselves, our origins and our uniqueness. If this other type of human being wasn't like us, what was he like? As I started researching this issue, I found myself staring at a picture of a nude Neanderthal man - a forensic sculpture created by Duke University paleoanthropologist Steve Churchill that was published last year in the journal Science. The model, based on a skeleton found at La Ferrassie in France, is mesmerizing in its combination of familiarity and alienness. To be honest, he's really not half bad looking. I can't say for certain I wouldn't sleep with him. He's got a good, muscular body, and while he's nobody's idea of handsome, that could be forgiven if he had a nice personality or I was starving and he offered to throw some rhino steaks on the fire for me.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: duckwithmangosalsa; godsgravesglyphs; lonelywoman; neandertal; neanderthal; spliffordmissesyou
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To: Eaker
That guy walks funny.

His kid walks funny too.

41 posted on 08/03/2006 5:37:29 PM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

"Yeah but we weren't able to escape Helen Thomas were we"?



Can't help it, Helen's face is just so versatile! I reckon you could even retread truck tires with it!


42 posted on 08/03/2006 5:38:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET, IN MY SWAMP)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


43 posted on 08/03/2006 5:40:08 PM PDT by tomzz
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To: SunkenCiv
The question of sex with Neanderthals ...

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.

44 posted on 08/03/2006 5:52:40 PM PDT by annie laurie (All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
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To: windcliff

Funny keywords. LOL!


45 posted on 08/03/2006 6:02:17 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I guess it was bound to happen...


46 posted on 08/03/2006 6:08:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: martin_fierro; SunkenCiv
(I looked high and low for Churchill's La Ferrassie sculpture, with no luck.) Maybe this is the best that Faye can do. Then again, she does write a sex advice column for the Philly Inquirer.

Faye Flam came to the Inquirer to cover science in 1995, and has since written hundreds of stories ranging from the tiniest elements in nanotechnology to the span of the universe. A graduate of California Institute of Technology, Flam spent the past year as a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan studying genetics and the brain.

Flam will continue to write science stories along with "Carnal Knowledge," which will appear weekly. Contact her at fflam@phillynews.com.


47 posted on 08/03/2006 9:14:35 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
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To: kitchen

Thanks! And I mean it. ;')


48 posted on 08/03/2006 9:27:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

IS there doubt about this?

Is this not where Type "O" blood comes from -- Neanderthals.

And Rh negative blood?

(And redheads!)


49 posted on 08/04/2006 12:33:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: madison10; martin_fierro; SunkenCiv
"Where's the picture of Mr. Neadert(h)al? "


50 posted on 08/04/2006 12:36:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: BenLurkin

:') They also made necklaces, built homes, some say invented soup...


51 posted on 08/04/2006 1:16:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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