To: Virginia-American
It's my understanding (don't have time to research right now) that Neanderthals had a differently-shaped rib cage. If this is so, why not produce an x-ray of a living person with that sort of bone structure? I've never seen such a thing. We now have a significant amount of DNA from Neanderthal sources. The analysis is not complete, but any interbreeding in the last 100,000 years is somewhere between extremely unlikely and impossible.
61 posted on
10/24/2006 12:41:57 PM PDT by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: js1138
"The analysis is not complete"
It will never be complete, dude.
73 posted on
10/24/2006 3:05:43 PM PDT by
razzle
To: js1138
"We now have a significant amount of DNA from Neanderthal sources. "
in Science vol. 277 July 11, 1997, pp. 176-178. "The method used to extract the DNA (on Neanderthals) was the polymerase chain reaction, which on old and damaged DNA is highly error prone."
113 posted on
10/25/2006 4:56:40 AM PDT by
razzle
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