Excellent posts, Civ.
Come on over and I'll broil some steaks for us.
Soup is for Neandertals.
ValerieUSA: Come on over and I'll broil some steaks for us.
I like how you think. :')
Calamari: Are Neanderthals and Cro Magnons just different breeds and did a line of hybrids pop up that bred "true" and retained it's own outward characteristics generation after generation?
The alternative is that the morphological characteristics, including the one mentioned above, and many others, including the Asian eyefold (a characteristic that won't show up in the fossil record, unless someone's face happened to be imprinted in hot lava or something) arose since the supposed egress from Africa in the past 50 to 100 thousand years.
I love your example of the dog fossils.
Bonaparte: I've always found that "investigators" like the ones cited in the header article are impossible to embarass, no matter what you point out to them... No matter how many offenses against logic and methodology you identify and bring to their attention, they are married to their conclusion and won't abandon it.
I agree. It's hard to embarrass people who are only interested in getting their next gubmint grant -- IOW, taxpayer dollars -- and grinding their political axes.