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To: Physicist
The study you refer to compared DNA from Neaderthals to DNA from Modern Homo sapiens. Until they perform a similar study on DNA from Neaderthals and DNA from Archaic Homo sapiens, the jury is still out. Even the DNA of Homo sapiens can be expected to change over a time frame of thousands of millenia.

I think this entire issue has been clouded by politically correct scientists not wanting to imply that "modern" Homo sapiens from Eurasia did not directly originate from Africa. In actuality, BOTH Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens originated in Africa, so this is really a non-issue.

If mammologists were viewing the skeletal remains of populations of hogs, deer, or any other taxa of mammals other than hominids, the apparent differences between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis/H. s. neanderthalensis would hardly be considered adequate to separate the populations into two distinct species.

Take a Neanderthal, give him a bath and a shave, and put him in a business suit, and he wouldn't stand out in any major city on earth today.

32 posted on 01/10/2002 9:27:43 AM PST by ZULU
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To: ZULU
Yes,it's "Twins," all over again. This time with Danny DeVito's build, and and Arnold Schwarznegger's strength.

By Der Vay, looking at Arnolt's prominent brow ridge, I vant to know eggsactly how far is dat Neanderthal (what did happen to the "H") Walley from Austria, Dude?

34 posted on 01/10/2002 9:39:41 AM PST by Francohio
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