Posted on 05/01/2007 6:30:29 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
“Both groups would seem to us dirty and smelly but, cleaned up, we would understand both to be human.”
And now every other TV commercial tells men they have to drench themselves with perfume to get women to come anywhere near them.
“Because the sampling remains limited, evolutionary geneticists generally do not say their findings settle the matter, though an ongoing mapping of the Neanderthal genome by European researchers may change the equation.”
I don’t think that most people would notice any difference between a shaved, washed, dressed Neanderthal and a modern man other than that the Neaderthal would appear much stronger than average with some “primitive” facial features.
If there was a reason modern man and Neanderthals did not interbreed successully, that fact must be related to some gological and climatological factor, not a purely biological one.
I use Nestle’s Quik. Something about the scent of chocolate makes me irresistable.
Who kept a Neanderthal in a cave....
Nahh, it doesn't quite work.
Ooooooh, yeah......>:-]
But that they mated is not. Men have been known to mate with ducks, goats, and walruses. How bad can a Neadertal cutie actually be?
The question I have about the theory is that it seemingly ignores the question of why the Neanderthals apparently didn’t mate with homo sapiens females.
If you saw Raquel Welch in 1,000,000 B.C. or read about Ayla in the Clan of the Cave Bear then you’d really wonder about that. Maybe homo sapiens women smelled funny.
(i’m not going there)
My husband says, “Us cavemen don’t find that very humorous.” I always laugh at the ones where he’s in the psychiatrist’s office.
My Neanderthal is also very intelligent and very cute in an ape-like kind of way.
Hey - I am a PROUD “process neanderthal”. Just ask the program managers in my aerospace company!!! (I work in product certification) ;-P
“Both groups would seem to us dirty and smelly...”
—Oh?
“Humans today still should have some Neanderthal genes.”
—But we don’t.
“...the unanswered question of why Neanderthals died out is even more puzzling...”
—Possibly mating with Cro-Magnons did not produce viable offspring.
LOL! That’s adorable.
You know...we have FOUR lawn mowers; three push-types and one rider. Why don’t ANY of them work? I’ll have to ask the Neanderthal I married, LOL!
“I always laugh at the ones where he’s in the psychiatrist’s office.”
Yeah...I crack up when he’s text-messaging his Mother during his therapy sessions, LOL!
Ever seen Chris complain of the cold?
I was born with that bone, and a protruding brow ridge, and too many teeth, and my brain is bigger than yours...;)
Red hair is a Neanderthal gene.
Know any redheads?
Not cro-magnum, homo sapiens sapiens.
you mean our kiddo who would stay outside in
3+ft of michigan snow all day? nope, never!
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